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    4 months ago

    Waydroid: a container-based approach to boot a full Android system on GNU/Linux

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      4 months ago

      It would be cool if waydroid could be also DE. Especially on Linux mobile.

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        4 months ago

        DE? In what sense? Why u would want this? It now integrates in existing Linux mobile where each android app looks like it different app launching

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          4 months ago

          No so you can use waydroid as other DE like you can choose on login KDE and GNOME.

          You can choose to run waydroid as your DE.

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            22 days ago

            So, you just want an Android interface on a Linux phone?

            The point of Waydroid is to ensure Android apps working on a Linux phone. DEs don’t do that.

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          4 months ago

          No so you can use waydroid as other DE like you can choose on login KDE and GNOME.

          You can choose to run waydroid as your DE.

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    4 months ago

    I always liked the potential of Waydroid… but in practice never used it.

    If you actually use it, what do you use it for?

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      22 days ago

      Advanced VPN tools as well as Tor are currently lacking on Linux ARM. So, anything that needs them goes straight into Waydroid.

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            21 days ago

            Interesting, wondering if those will get upstreamed/folded back into WireGuard if not why not.

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              21 days ago

              AmneziaWG is essentially WireGuard with certain fixes to make it significantly less traceable by modern DPI equipment. These fixes are numerous and regularly updated as part of an arms race with the government.

              For most applications Wireguard is used for, like tunneling to your own machine under normal circumstances, there’s no need for those, they add attack surface, incur severe maintenance burden and put political pressure on the project. And as Wireguard serves as an upstream for censorship-resistant protocols, they would be threatened as well.

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    4 months ago

    There is also android translation layer but I don’t see any progress in it.

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        4 months ago

        Didn’t last commit was over month ago?

        And app compatibility didn’t change in a while?