Waydroid
Just a note: if your on a x11 desktop waydroid will not work without tinkering
Said tinkering is pretty simple actually, just install weston. Weston is a reference wayland implementation that can run inside X11, so you can run waydroid inside weston
Major, MAJOR caveat here.
It’s in the name
That’s a fair point, and it’s the Waydroid team’s unquestioned right to use whatever technologies they want to build their software on.
But just throwing it out as a solution to a general Linux question when there’s a VERY good chance it’s incompatible with major distros is omitting critical information.
I’m on pop, with a working wayland for quite some time now. Excuse me fon being out of the loop, but what major distros don’t have wayland support?
linux mint(cinnamon stable ,experimental has some wayland support),mx linux(non kde version but am pretty sure kde 5.27 doesnt have wayland out of the box if they follow debian stable release cycle),antix is what i can get from my head
Just off the top of my head, Linux Mint, which I know because Waydroid is incompatible with the machines I use in my classrooms. Even if it were compatible, unless the lack of global hotkeys has been addressed changing is a non-starter.
True considering 90% of linux desktops are still x11 only outside of kde and gnome (they use x11 as fallback)
It saddens me to see you being downvoted by the Wayland evangelists when it is CLEARLY not a stable replacement for X11 yet. If I could upvote you twice, I would.
So, 90% of Linux users are using Wayland already?
No I mean 90% of desktops support x11 not users
Waydroid is better than bluestacks imo
It is definitely very performant. However, it was a pain to set up when I first tried to use it. First installing it, then installing an ARM to x86 compatibility layer, and then certifying the device for Google Play to work (which in hindsight isn’t necessary considering that Aurora Store exists.)
Certifying isn’t too bad, I’ve done it 7 of 8 times now probably because I keep nuking my machines
Why do you need a compatibility layer? It runs x86 lineageos doesn’t it?
Thank you. I will try this
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