I’d much prefer the devs to spend time adding more linux drivers for the hardware and then we can just install linux without android
Basically androids is linux but on crack. One thing that’s holding developers back from further developing Android are Google and smartphone manufacturer. As time goes by, Google implements many things they consider “security,” but they turn out to be the biggest stumbling block.
Don’t believe it? We used to be able to customize our Android devices to our liking without having to worry about “Play Store Integrity Check,” “Play Store Protect,” or “Bootloader Check,” etc. Now, we can simply resign ourselves to using the stock Android device that came with our smartphone, without being able to modify it or sacrificing the features lost due to custom ROMs.What’s super ironic is the “Android is more versatile than iOS” crowd is suspiciously quiet now.
We told you, Google doesn’t give a shit about you. That was a strategy for rapid growth. Once they got everything they wanted out of you they were going to lock it down just like Apple did.
Android does provide other abstractions for app devs. That could become a flatpak runtime at some point though …
One of the big questions that comes to mind is, why do I need Android to run Linux stuff?
because it’s a pocket computer that fits in a small place and can drive an external display
Could someone test this with programs like GIMP, Darktable, and Inkscape? I’m curious about the potential of the Android phone as PC, particularly with the merging of Android and Chrome OS. If Android’s desktop mode progresses enough to a level of maturity to run Linux programs sufficiently, this combined with the general Linux on ARM efforts of Asahi and others could prove to be THE solution. Just imagine one of those tri-folding phones unfold to a tablet size with a folio-style keyboard and trackpad, then plugging the tablet-phone into a monitor and desktop setup to “get real work done.”
Gimp already runs OK on ChromeOS, so I would expect the same on Android soon.
Because Linux runs in VM on ChromeOS, there were some annoyances and there will likely be some on Android.
Maybe they fixed it, but for a long time Linux on ChromeOS couldn’t access Yubikeys because Google choose not to expose those devices to the container.
And some keyboard shortcuts and mappings couldn’t work because again Google limited what the container was allowed to see and control.
And if certain kinds of problems happened, you ended losing both the apps and your data inside the Linux container.
Yeah, it will be cool to run desktop Linux from your phone. But if doing Real Linux Work on Chromebook doesn’t appeal to you, don’t expect it to be better on Android.
deleted by creator
There’s Android Translation Layer (ATL) which is currently being developed.
Not sure if it will meet your specs but I do hope it can replace Waydroid in the future.
Waydroid right?
Android certification is a problem though from what I can tell
Year of the linux phone?
