Okay, maybe not so dull, but it was more hoops than I figured I’d have to jump through, but I finally got the basics all set up and working!
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Edit: I basically followed this guide:
https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Graphical_Environment
Plus, if you don’t have an external keyboard, I highly suggest the Hackers Keyboard app.
Edit 2, some semi quick testing…
- Synaptic ✅
- Firefox ✅
- GIMP ✅
- VLC ✅
- gedit ✅
- ghex ✅
- LibreOffice 🚫
To what end? I’m not criticizing, I’m taking notes.
To test and see what all it can and can’t do.
I’m pretty impressed honestly. Although it can’t do everything, it can sure do a lot!
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“We have linux phone on android”
This is cool tho doing it now
Sooner or later i have to try that on some of my family older tab.
I basically followed this guide here…
https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Graphical_Environment
Plus, in case you need an onscreen keyboard with basically all the buttons (you probably will unless you have an external keyboard), I highly suggest Hacker’s Keyboard
I’m still getting things set up, but yeah it even runs Firefox (but you gotta install that yourself) 👍
It probably runs quite a bit more than that too, but I need to do some house cleaning to free up some more space. I’m sure I can find some apps I ain’t ever gonna use…
Nice. Thanks x sharing 👍
Nice, I just got Debian on my Surface yesterday. The touch sensing isn’t quite adequate though. I might just try one of the rpi touch screens.
