Anyone experimenting with Linux on Android around here?
I was having quite a hard time finding a decent IDE to use on DeX so Im just running a full desktop and coding on vscode. The performance is surprisingly good, just wish it was easier and more stable to set up gnome, as it just looks like it would fit a touchscreen and the android aesthetic really well.
I tried a bunch of distros on https://userland.tech/ years back and was definitely impressed
Can you explain what this is? Kinda confused, is it a VM of some sort? Or something equivalent to WSL on Windows?
Android is already Linux-based, so that is just running regular Linux binaries while providing tweaks and shims to make those binaries play nicer with Android’s setup. Things running in it don’t have root access, they’ve only got the access that the base “UserLAnd” app has due to how Android handles security but that’s more than enough to get you a “traditional” desktop with utilities.
It’s more akin to installing and running all sorts of programs on a non-admin Windows account with all the “Install for only me” options instead of “Install for all users”. Except instead of Windows, it’s just Linux.