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Blaze (he/him)@piefed.zip to Android@lemdro.idEnglish · 3 days ago

Android will soon run Linux apps better, and that's great for Google's PC plans

www.androidauthority.com

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Android will soon run Linux apps better, and that's great for Google's PC plans

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Blaze (he/him)@piefed.zip to Android@lemdro.idEnglish · 3 days ago
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Google has a much-needed fix to improve the performance of graphical Linux apps on Android. Here's what's changing and why it matters.
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  • Muscle_Meteor@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Id much prefer this the other way round

  • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Y’all, we need to get multiple break-away plans from everything big tech before it gets even more difficult.

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    Would they also require those Linux apps to be registered with google?

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      yeah probably in the future, you may only install Linux apps from goolag play store.

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      Probably not. It’d break the entire point.

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        Well, they started the same with android. Nothing stops them from doing that for improved security and availability

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          “security” and “availability”.

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    Or I could just run Linux.

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      Usual moves from them, you may have trouble installing Linux on an Android PC Because they do not provide drivers for Linux or bootloader is locked.

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      not with their plans to lock all of their devices tight, you don’t

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      And add waydroid to it.

      Or try to run (a fork of) Android x86 in virt-manager.

      (Do NOT use virtualbox, 1) the guest additions are closed-source 2) it’s owned by oracle )

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        1. It’s performance is dog shit, like running Virtual PC in 2006
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      Well…

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    Do people really want Android’s horrible memory management in a laptop package?

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      or you may omly install Linux apps from goolag play store, you can’t sideload them

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      I guess. Also, restrictions on downloading 3rd party apps.

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    Yo dawg, we heard you like virtual machines, so we put virtual machines in your virtual machines, so you can run Linux on your Android on your Linux

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