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They did make it, but with Amazon’s backing. Subsystem for Android is still available and works surprisingly well, but thanks to Microsoft’s similarly short att
by kaba0 2y ago
They did make it, but with Amazon’s backing. Subsystem for Android is still available and works surprisingly well, but thanks to Microsoft’s similarly short attention span than Google’s, it is discontinued.
Though while we are at it — why is there no easy way to run android on gnu linux desktops? Hell, why is the latter not rebuilt on top of the much better android primitives? Like so many stuff is just solved in android which are laughably bad in linux desktop, like it’s nonexistent security.
- DanielHB 2y agoI know about that, but that was mostly to run android apps on windows. I never tried it but I assumed most things related to Google Play Services didn't work in it. In any case I was just reminiscing about Microsoft not properly pushing "Microsoft Android" phones free of google services. > why is there no easy way to run android on gnu linux desktops? Probably because nobody bothered to do it and I imagine a lot of existing linux desktop software would have problems running in android. Like Android has its own libc and stuff. I am not knowledgeable enough though to be sure of these claims.
- kaba0 2y agoI believe the answer is much more pitiful, and is a mix of not-invented-here, and “it ain’t written in c”.
- spookie 2y agoCheck the Waydroid project. As for the claim of non existent security, I wonder what you mean? Lots of attention nowadays in the Linux world is to containerise everything, not to mention the way xdg-desktop-portal works.
- kaba0 2y agoIt may have attention, but almost nothing uses it (also, it’s not that good security-wise to begin with with developers defining their own permissions), most everything is still just run as your user, having access to your ssh keys, browser caches, everything.
- spookie 2y agoThe user is able to, with pretty good granularity, set various permissions through friendly GUIs. Things like Flatseal or KDE's very system settings. You can even override what permissions are set by default, pretty cool stuff. This for Flatpaks. Of course, using xdg-desktop-portal requires developers to use that API. But honestly, I've seen most software I use asking permissions through it. This is most evident when running some Wayland compositor. To be fair, yes, the developer needs to do their part. (Edit: more detail on things)
- kaba0 2y agoIt’s good that there is some progress, my only gripe is that Android/ios was in a better shape a decade ago.