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There's no indication the ChromeOS-Android merger will kill support for graphical Linux apps? Android supports graphical Linux apps as well.
by NotPractical 1y ago
There's no indication the ChromeOS-Android merger will kill support for graphical Linux apps? Android supports graphical Linux apps as well.
- pjmlp 1y agoNot officially, nope. Only these APIs are official, and none of them are Linux specific, rather Khronos and ISO standards, alongside Android specific native APIs. https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/stable_apis https://developer.android.com/ndk/guides/stable_apis Also to note that even though these APIs are enough for developing games, and are also available on GNU/Linux, Valve has to make use of Proton, because none of the studios targeting Android/Linux cares about GNU/Linux.
- NotPractical 1y agoNo, I mean inside a VM: https://www.androidauthority.com/linux-terminal-graphical-apps-3580905/ https://www.androidauthority.com/linux-terminal-graphical-ap... Chrome OS supported Steam through a VM as well, and it still does, if you manually install it. The tech stack they used for Steam on Chrome OS is apparently identical to the still-supported Crostini feature ("Linux on Chrome OS"), just with a different VM image that has Steam pre-installed: https://chromeos.dev/en/posts/bringing-steam-to-chromeos#borealis-vs-crostini https://chromeos.dev/en/posts/bringing-steam-to-chromeos#bor...