This could be really interesting. I don't personally see a use case for me to run Linux apps on Android. I could see myself running android apps on Linux though. Pretty happy to see this.
Very exciting stuff, Really hope wayland gets hooked up. if not, well, we can make it work somehow
This seems as much about converging Android and ChromeOS as anything.
Chromebooks have the advantage of being mostly a laptop with a keyboard, mouse-analog and largish screen... Phones don't really have that, so it seems an odd choice to me. Especially for a platform which is hostile to giving users permissions to install software on their own devices.
Android runs on a LOT more then just phones, BlissOS/Android x86, Arcades, casinos, cars etc.
Does termux not already do this?
~~No, Termux uses proot~~
Only distro environments use proot. Termux runs as a normal app and just has binaries stored locally.
I don't really see the need. It would be nice to have KVM but other than that I don't see much point.
I personally really like runing full chroot on my device, this will fit a similar role with more security and convenience.
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