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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 2 years ago by 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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[–] 48 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Interesting, I think I’ll try it in waydroid

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  • [+] 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)
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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    No, I’m using waydroid in wsl

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    So it's windows emulating linux emulating android emulating linux?

    I'm interested to hear how that works out for you

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The WSL part was just a joke, but I do sometimes test apps on waydroid as I am using an IPhone currently and I want to switch, so for that I try apps on waydroid so I can easily replace IOS exclusive apps when I make the switch.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    In VM on FreeBSD ofc, right?

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    • [–] 26 points 2 years ago

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    [–] 13 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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    • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (7 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.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 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

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (4 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.

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    • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (11 children)

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

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago (9 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.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 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)

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

    You can, it's crashy.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years 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.

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    • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

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

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    [–] 1 point 2 years ago

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

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