Very interesting news. I haven’t tried it out personally; But if it works, I imagine that’d be huge.

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hey i heard you like linux so here’s linux running inside of linux

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You can already do that with termux-proot and termux-x11

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HW Accel?

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Yes, you can make it work on snapdragon devices (dont know about Exeynos or other)

https://www.reddit.com/r/termux/s/Gc9k1G7LhE

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Interesting, I think I’ll try it in waydroid

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So you’re going to emulate Linux in an Android emulator on Linux?

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No, I’m using waydroid in wsl

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In VM on FreeBSD ofc, right?

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Lmfao

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So it’s windows emulating linux emulating android emulating linux?

I’m interested to hear how that works out for you

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This pretty much opens the door for Proton on mobile I guess?

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Proton on mobiles already exists Check out Box64Droid

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No, sadly, unless you have an amd64 phone, which would honestly be weird at this point.

-guy who spent to long trying to get Linux Dwarf Fortress running on an ARM tablet not a month ago.

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That’s why I prefer to distribute programs as .wasm files. Efficiently run code on any hardware.

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It would be great if publishers started doing this, however, this way you cannot sell Skyrim or/and gta5 *th time in a row

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It’s likely you could use winlator to play the windows version of the game (I know, not quite the same, although it does run wine via a linux container lmao)

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You can, it’s crashy.

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Emulation time it is!

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Box64 might be worth checking out. I didn’t get much out of it but your mileage may vary.

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