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[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 56 points 5 months ago (7 children)

TLDR: Easy installation of something like Termux, GUI, Kwin and KDE, and a graphical display.

This is really good!

[–] lily33@lemm.ee 13 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Not really. It seems to use a very different technology from termux.

[–] drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 5 months ago (5 children)

it's actually not that far off a chroot, it uses LXC, the really cool thing thats going on is this wayland integration, I was waiting for termux-gui + wlroots to come along, but this might just land first

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

So how does it render to screen? Because the biggest nag on any of these previous implementations came when I needed to use VNC to remotely connect to the desktop...

[–] drwankingstein@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 5 months ago

it uses a modified wayland compositor that hooks up directly to android surfaceview. Currently if you want a chroot/proot solution, I reccomend termux-x11. it's good performance.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 months ago

A better alternative would be spice, but just a guess

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