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Waydroid is now available in Debian (news.erebion.eu)
submitted 5 days ago by erebion@news.erebion.eu to c/linuxphones@lemmy.ml
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Waydroid has been packaged and is now available in Unstable: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/waydroid

It should be available in Testing in a few days.

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[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days 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?

[–] UnH1ng3d@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] mecen@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] anon5621@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] mecen@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 days 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.

[–] mecen@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 days 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.

[–] mecen@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] erebion@news.erebion.eu 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

How do you not see the huge progress they make? Just look at all the commits.

[–] mecen@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Didn't last commit was over month ago?

And app compatibility didn't change in a while?

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 5 days ago

Now if ony wayland stopped causing issues with my multimonitor setup...