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Re: Lindroid

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Post by Y_Y »

> full hw accelerated Linux on your Android as an app

Might be worth adding that excerpt to the title, as well as changing the link to hggh's thread reader version without which I can't see anything.

Re: Lindroid

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Post by LorenDB »

Y_Y wrote: post #3

> full hw accelerated Linux on your Android as an app Might be worth adding that excerpt to the title, as well as changing the link to hggh's thread reader version without which I can't see anything.

Unfortunately I can't edit the title at this point. As for the link, HN wants posts to link to primary sources instead of alternative front ends (archive.today, Nitter, Thread Reader).

Re: Lindroid

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Post by fsflover »

> full hw accelerated Linux on your Android as an app

At this point, you can just run full GNU/Linux on a phone. Sent from my Librem 5.

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Post by kennywinker »

fsflover wrote: post #5

> full hw accelerated Linux on your Android as an app At this point, you can just run full GNU/Linux on a phone. Sent from my Librem 5.

There is a unique use case for running linux as an app vs as the base OS. Seems to me it's a lot like the difference between booting linux and using WSL to run linux inside windows.

Re: Lindroid

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Post by figmert »

I'm currently in the process of trying to see if Samsung DeX is able to replace my laptop. It is running directly on Termux, as opposed to using something like proot. So far it seems promising, and the biggest thing issue I have is that the Termux-X11 session essentially acts like a VM in that shortcuts are not seemless.

I'd love to know how this compares to that. Or maybe there's a way to make that more seemless. E.g. if apps would be shown as Android apps as far as the launcher is concerned.

Re: Lindroid

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Post by bsimpson »

fsflover wrote: post #5

> full hw accelerated Linux on your Android as an app At this point, you can just run full GNU/Linux on a phone. Sent from my Librem 5.

"Is it any good?" is its own question.

I went down this rabbit hole trying to see how to make the non-gaming side of a Steam handheld feel like a tablet, and was surprised/disappointed at how spartan the touch-based Linux ecosystem is. There are half a dozen projects trying to make it happen, but they're all really small and mostly independent. There's one guy working on GNOME for mobile, one working on the Maui system for Nitrux…. Canonical gave up on Ubuntu for mobile, so some guy revived that. I haven't been able to try Plasma Mobile 6 because it's not packaged for NixOS, but v5 wasn't usable. Phosh was poorly packaged as well, so I didn't invest much effort there.

Making a good touch UI is a ton of work, but the space so far seems to be mostly filled with people doing hobby projects (or closed ones like Sailfish).

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