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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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why are android emulators either nonexistent or utterly useless? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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the one thing linux really hasnt been made on par with winblows yet is the dreadful amount of options for android simulation -the most popular choice seems to be Waydroid, but its such an unneeded hassle to set up at all -genymotion is just slow -and than you have things like android x86 which entirely defeat the point of an emulator

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's just a few distrobox containers. It's not hard to maintain, and you can do it on your own distro.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i dont think thats not how you sell and the 20 seconds i spend on looking distrobox up, it seems to be terminal only, for something as important and big as a distro in a distro, terminal only seems a ltitle to "KISS" for me

and if waydroid doesnt even work unless you do some serious hackerman stuff, how am i supposed to make distrobox work for android?

does blendos solve the arm problem for apps at all?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I don't care about the distro. You can get basically the same thing from Vanilla OS, uBlue, Fedora Silverblue, and many others with just a small amount of configuration.

You use Distrobox from the terminal, but distrobox export lets you install graphical apps in a Distrobox container but integrate them with the host. BlendOS (and Vanilla OS) just combine it into a package manager. It's also not "important and big," it's just a container—basically just WSL for Linux.

Distrobox doesn't work with Android. I was talking about the "install any package from any distro" part. BlendOS just adds in Waydroid support.

No, it does not. It's just Waydroid, which IIRC requires x86 apps.