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Major, MAJOR caveat here.
It's in the name
That's a fair point, and it's the Waydroid team's unquestioned right to use whatever technologies they want to build their software on.
But just throwing it out as a solution to a general Linux question when there's a VERY good chance it's incompatible with major distros is omitting critical information.
Thankfully nested compositor, while not perfect, work really well for most use cases.
You won't get native multi-window support, because I don't think there are any nested compositors that work like that. There was a project in the past, but I'm pretty sure it's dead now. However, if you looking for something like a blue stack, it's alternative where you're only trying to play one game at a time, then waydroid with a nested compositor will work fine.
I apologize for the rock writing. I'm using speech 2 text.