[HN Gopher] Lindroid
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       Lindroid
        
       Author : LorenDB
       Score  : 71 points
       Date   : 2024-06-17 13:46 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
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       | hggh wrote:
       | Readable version:
       | https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1802331845633212554.html
        
       | Y_Y wrote:
       | > 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.
        
         | LorenDB wrote:
         | 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).
        
       | fsflover wrote:
       | > 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.
        
         | kennywinker wrote:
         | 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.
        
         | bsimpson wrote:
         | "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).
        
         | talldayo wrote:
         | For a lot of handsets that don't have an unlocked bootloader
         | this is literally not true, even if it _does_ have working
         | Linux drivers.
        
       | tetris11 wrote:
       | (I suppose I must be blind)
       | 
       | Where are the APKs?
        
         | aadhavans wrote:
         | From the Twitter thread, their github appears to be
         | https://github.com/linux-on-droid. I don't see APKs in any of
         | the repos, though.
        
       | figmert wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | janice1999 wrote:
       | Video about the project from Volla Community Days:
       | https://www.youtube.com/live/7vF5647gNbo?si=NC_QytRezsgDCQV5
        
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