Google is preparing to let you run Linux apps on Android, just like Chrome OS

Are what point do they stop pretending and just make it a pure linux platform with a different packaging format for any linux app to run in? They are doing it with CROS (or whatever the new Chrome on Linux OS is being called) and maybe it's time to do it with Android. Running a VM just seems quite wasteful.

Anti Commercial-AI license

let me??? Termux has userland covered.

Termux: "Look at what they have to do to mimic a fraction of our power"

Maybe they could rather fix AOSP. Based on that recent LTT video Google doesn't really give a fuck about it anymore.

I just recently bought 2 phones (one returned, other isn't far from that), one with A14 the other with A13. Changing minimum width to >600dp (to simulate a tablet (larger screen) and trigger tablet mode) has very wild results now. I mean like overlapping icons in notification shade, completely non-functional 3 button navigation, app tray squished to less than width of 1 icon (completely unusable), icons getting off-screen, gesture navigation occasionally not working either, notification shade icons and notifications offset from their background (just a visual problem) and a lot of wasted space everywhere.

Sure, it's in developer settings, but so far whenever I did something to this in up to Android 11 including, the phone just beautifully adjusted to this and everything suddenly made more sense on a large screen.
Though maybe I was just lucky?

I am currently typing this on an old Moto G5s Plus (2017) with the now discontinued PixelExperience (11) ROM. My last bug-free Android experience. I can even route hotspot over a VPN, how cool is that.

WSL finally has competition... American Sign Language

But you may not run them as root!

Very cool but I hope they give it proper GUI integration, not just a webview or VNC, which is how the alternatives work.

I'll just stick to Termux and proot, thanks

Wayland?

we should count chrome os as linux then, linux market share +++