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Lindroid is an Android app that lets you run Linux in a container, with support for hardware-acceleration - Liliputing (liliputing.com)
submitted 4 months ago by gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 49 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Interesting, I think I’ll try it in waydroid

[–] fubarx@lemmy.ml 26 points 4 months ago

[–] Hellmo_Luciferrari@lemm.ee 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Baahb@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Hellmo_Luciferrari@lemm.ee 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Baahb@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I seem to have believed the title of the article before reading the article for some reason. My bad.

[–] Hellmo_Luciferrari@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

All good!

[–] Hule@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Funny you should mention UserLAnd

[–] Hellmo_Luciferrari@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

I have seen the likes of similar, like Andronix but I typically don't want to buy into proprietary software where possible. Thank you for sharing!

[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 1 points 4 months ago

I bought a OnePlus 6 rn, apparently one of the devices where you can put Debian on it.

[–] redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can already do that with termux-proot and termux-x11

[–] Spider89@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

HW Accel?

[–] redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago

Yes, you can make it work on snapdragon devices (dont know about Exeynos or other)

https://www.reddit.com/r/termux/s/Gc9k1G7LhE

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

This pretty much opens the door for Proton on mobile I guess?

[–] Baahb@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's why I prefer to distribute programs as .wasm files. Efficiently run code on any hardware.

[–] bruhduh@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It would be great if publishers started doing this, however, this way you cannot sell Skyrim or/and gta5 *th time in a row

[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 2 points 4 months ago

you could start with FOSS software.

[–] bitfucker@programming.dev 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Emulation time it is!

[–] Baahb@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Box64 might be worth checking out. I didn't get much out of it but your mileage may vary.

[–] Nutteman@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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)

[–] Baahb@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can, it's crashy.

[–] Nutteman@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Winlator is kind of a bitch to configure to get things running smoothly. I spent wayyyyyyy too much time trying to get new vegas to run at 60fps on my fold 4 just because I wanted to see if I could. I got close but now it crashes every minute or so. Moved my save over to my pc lmao. If you'd like, you can dm me and I can try to help you out with getting it to run. I ended up joining several discord servers to try to learn what the options do. It sucked but I think i have a somewhat basic understanding of how things function now.

[–] Baahb@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Appreciate the offer. I managed to get it running full screen on a sever I can vnc into, just like steam link except not slow.

Note: SL may not be slow, but the server it's on aty place is a potato. Doing DF and steam (goddamnit I'd love to kill steam webhelper) and steam link will make you crazy.

[–] noodles@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Proton on mobiles already exists Check out Box64Droid

[–] Toes@ani.social 2 points 4 months ago

Oh thats cool. Theres a similar one that lets you run dos.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago

hey i heard you like linux so here's linux running inside of linux