1y ago

Lindroid is an Android app that lets you run Linux in a container, with support for hardware-acceleration - Liliputing

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Very interesting news. I haven't tried it out personally; But if it works, I imagine that'd be huge.

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1y ago

Lindroid is an Android app that lets you run Linux in a container, with support for hardware-acceleration

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1y ago

Lindroid is an Android app that lets you run Linux in a container, with support for hardware-acceleration

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Interesting, I think I’ll try it in waydroid
- No, I’m using waydroid in wsl
You can already do that with termux-proot and termux-x11
- HW Accel?
  
  Yes, you can make it work on snapdragon devices (dont know about Exeynos or other)
  https://www.reddit.com/r/termux/s/Gc9k1G7LhE
This interests me greatly. I would like to try this on a device, but I don't have an extra I can spare to do so.
- Put it on your phone. It runs inside a container, so on top of stock android. All your normal phone stuff is still there and running. Worth noting android has good support for mouse and keyboard.
  Edit: user below pointed out that this does not appear to be an app, which kinda makes it a weird choice? Seems like there are still better solutions like Userland, Andronix, and LinuxDeploy
  
  https://github.com/Linux-on-droid/lindroid-rootfs
  In this specific github entry it mentions flashing, and with my setup, I would prefer not to flash something onto my phone without some sort of backup.
  Unless there is a userland app I can install that I seem to be missing.
- I bought a OnePlus 6 rn, apparently one of the devices where you can put Debian on it.
This pretty much opens the door for Proton on mobile I guess?
- No, sadly, unless you have an amd64 phone, which would honestly be weird at this point.
  -guy who spent to long trying to get Linux Dwarf Fortress running on an ARM tablet not a month ago.
  
  That's why I prefer to distribute programs as .wasm files. Efficiently run code on any hardware.
  
  Emulation time it is!
  
  It's likely you could use winlator to play the windows version of the game (I know, not quite the same, although it does run wine via a linux container lmao)
- Proton on mobiles already exists Check out Box64Droid
Oh thats cool. Theres a similar one that lets you run dos.
hey i heard you like linux so here's linux running inside of linux

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