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Since Android uses Linux, you might think it would be easier to run Linux apps on your Android phone or tablet. Some solutions exist, but the experience is usually not that great. A new player, Lindroid, claims to bring a real Linux distribution with hardware acceleration Wayland to your smartphone. How well does it perform? The recommended window manager is KDE’s KWIN. This software is pretty hard to run on anything but a full-fledged system with dbus, hardware acceleration, and similar features.
There are a few issues though. First, you need a rooted phone, which isn’t surprising at all. Second, there are still no clear instructions on how to install the software. Most of the information available is in the X thread. You can see a slide presentation about Lindroid about 4 hours into the very long video below.
It looks like Linux is running inside a container, but device access has been opened up, so even though Linux in this case is technically an Android app, you get a full Linux experience.
I’m interested to see how this works, and if the steps are clear I might just root my old phone and give it a try. Of course there are other ways, Termux seems to be the most popular, but running GUI programs doesn’t always give you the best experience. That’s not for lack of trying.
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