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So the Linux Terminal is just a browser?
(lemm.ee)
Isn't everything a webapp these days?
I can say that practically every "program" my employer forces us to use is in fact a webapp, and thus I have to refresh or back out and reclick a minimum of 100 times a day (I do teleservice).
Well, no. It's a full-blown Debian VM running on your portable Linux-based device, with its own virtual network adapter that accesses the internet via NAT through your phone's physical network adapter. Just like a VM on a normal server.
The terminal program used to access said VM happens to be a web app. Very much like Spice, NoMachine, and others. You can even SSH into it from Termux if you forward the port.
Yeap, i was talking about the terminal app not the VM
Well not just. It's a web app that connects to a shell running on a VM, running on your phone.
lol
Is that the builtin thingy?
It is. That app from Developer options
First the windows 11 start menu, now the linux terminal. Worldview in shambles.
why learn C when your can learn CSS
Probably a VNC window to the console or something lile that.
I had a basic terminal app 10 years ago that was built better than that. It could barely do anything without root access, but at least it want a web app.
I went back to termux after trying this since I like to use VPN for both external and internal communication to my servers.
So Linux is just Android?
Depends. Looked today into why there's no ready-made DuckDuckGo browser for Linux (but there is for Mac,Windows,Android). There's source code for LInux in a .deb. Rahtha confusing methinks.
Always has been
this post was submitted on 30 May 2025
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