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    • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
      36·
      2 months ago

      18/f/California.

      Jokes aside, this appears to be a full virtual machine rather than something like WSL that can interact with and manipulate the host OS. You probably won’t be able to do anything interesting with your Android files using it, just mess around in a sandboxed distro. So it’s still good for developers who want a portable Linux environment to run things in, but not nearly as useful as a properly integrated terminal would be.

        • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          2 months ago

          Right, I should have specified isolated VM. WSL and Windows are interconnected (even if some things, like accessing Windows files within WSL2, are horribly slow). Google’s solution probably won’t have anything like that, given their reluctance to allow users access to Android’s underlying systems.

          • Railcar8095@lemm.eeEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            I guess the downloads, music… Folders will be available. Basically what an app can access, this should be able to access too

  • whoareuEnglish
    291·
    2 months ago

    imo it’s too good to be true.

  • N3Cr0@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 months ago

    I’m still waiting for a fully GPU-rendered gnome desktop on my phone. … and an actually working port of libre office.

    • Baron Von J@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      2 months ago

      Yeah if this isn’t a step on the path to "connect your phone to this [usb-c|thunderbolt|whatevs] dock and you get a full desktop OS, I’m not super interested.

    • yonder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      2 months ago

      Postmarketos is a project that already does that. You can run full fat gnome on a pixel 3a or oneplus 6, though phosh is more polished for daily use.

        • daddy32@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          2 months ago

          By breaking the play store version often. It was not possible for author to update it for several years. Seems it got better recently, but still, to have a full fledged version of Termux, you need to install it from a different source - f-droid, ideally.

          https://github.com/termux-play-store

          • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            3·
            2 months ago

            Side note for anyone reading, if you have an android please get f-droid, the google play store is an apocalyptic shithole and is 100% untrustable for finding safe functional apps, even very simple ones like a flashlight app or basic image gallery browser.

            It is honestly apalling and I don’t know how any google employees working on android get home from work at the end of the day and feel ok about the impact on the world of the thing they are working on.

            The play store is an atrocious, embarassing failure that actively makes the life of anybody who interacts with it worse.

  • yonder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    I wonder how this will effect the linux phone space (mobian, postmarketos, ubuntu touch). I hope it does not negatively impact progress by stealing attention away.