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why are android emulators either nonexistent or utterly useless? (beehaw.org)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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the one thing linux really hasnt been made on par with winblows yet is the dreadful amount of options for android simulation -the most popular choice seems to be Waydroid, but its such an unneeded hassle to set up at all -genymotion is just slow -and than you have things like android x86 which entirely defeat the point of an emulator

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[–] [S] 1 point 3 years ago (5 children)

blendos sounds nice and all but its claim of being able to install any package from any distro just sounds like a nightmare to maintain, there have to be issues coming from this right?

could you perhaps sell that distro to me?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

    It's just a few distrobox containers. It's not hard to maintain, and you can do it on your own distro.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    i dont think thats not how you sell and the 20 seconds i spend on looking distrobox up, it seems to be terminal only, for something as important and big as a distro in a distro, terminal only seems a ltitle to "KISS" for me

    and if waydroid doesnt even work unless you do some serious hackerman stuff, how am i supposed to make distrobox work for android?

    does blendos solve the arm problem for apps at all?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    I don't care about the distro. You can get basically the same thing from Vanilla OS, uBlue, Fedora Silverblue, and many others with just a small amount of configuration.

    You use Distrobox from the terminal, but distrobox export lets you install graphical apps in a Distrobox container but integrate them with the host. BlendOS (and Vanilla OS) just combine it into a package manager. It's also not "important and big," it's just a container—basically just WSL for Linux.

    Distrobox doesn't work with Android. I was talking about the "install any package from any distro" part. BlendOS just adds in Waydroid support.

    No, it does not. It's just Waydroid, which IIRC requires x86 apps.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (1 child)

    I can’t sell you something I haven’t used, even the components (distrobox and waydroid) I have not tried since I have personally no usecase for them. I mentioned BlendOS purely because from my passing look at it the android app support stuck in my memory.

    The beautiful thing with linux is, you could just burn the live USB and boot the live environment to test it out for yourself, without practically any hassle or run it in VirtualBox.

    As I gather you run Endeavour but then complain about the hassle of doing things in Linux. Endeavour is basically arch with a GUI installer + some extra tidbits, realistically it is as close to being arch as you can be without actually calling it arch. Arch is not a system for people who like things to just work withou “hackerma solutions”. Just look at Arch Wiki FAQ , specifically sections 1.2 and 1.6. If you want something simpler, perhaps try another distro.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 years ago

    endeavor was the least trouble i ever had in regard of never having any hassle, i had to jump through far more hoops trying to get certain things working in say..linux mint, than i ever had with endeavouros it makes arch actually usable instead of a nightmare to install

    i just have to type 3 letters and it updates everything, no hassle, speedy and actually easy (for once)

    thanks for the arch wiki link but 3 out of 4 times i have to force myself to use it, i eventually give up and search for the proper answer somewhere else cause i dont want to read the entire history of binary to understand it

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