Very interesting news. I haven’t tried it out personally; But if it works, I imagine that’d be huge.

        • @somethingsomethingidk
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          So it’s windows emulating linux emulating android emulating linux?

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

          • @[email protected]
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            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.

            • Wise
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              I’m looking to do the exact same thing and been collecting FOSS apps as I go, but I’ve never heard of waydroid before Thank you!

            • Hellmo_luciferrari
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              15 months ago

              You should go another level deeper, VirtualBox > Windows > WSL > Waydroid > Lindroid

        • @hypertown
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          55 months ago

          In VM on FreeBSD ofc, right?

  • Hellmo_luciferrari
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    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.

    • @Baahb
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      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

    • AnikiOP
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      I bought a OnePlus 6 rn, apparently one of the devices where you can put Debian on it.

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

    • @Baahb
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      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.

      • AnikiOP
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        25 months ago

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

        • bruhduh
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          25 months ago

          It would be great if publishers started doing this, however, this way you cannot sell Skyrim or/and gta5 *th time in a row

          • AnikiOP
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            25 months ago

            you could start with FOSS software.

        • @Baahb
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          25 months ago

          Box64 might be worth checking out. I didn’t get much out of it but your mileage may vary.

      • @Nutteman
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        15 months ago

        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)

        • @Baahb
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          15 months ago

          You can, it’s crashy.

          • @Nutteman
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            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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              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.

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

  • katy ✨
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    15 months ago

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