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I wonder how this will effect the linux phone space (mobian, postmarketos, ubuntu touch). I hope it does not negatively impact progress by stealing attention away.

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I’m pretty sure this won’t have much of an impact

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Will it be powerful enough to kill Son Goku?

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So will this replace Termux?

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So that’s why google is killing termux.

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How is Google killing termux?

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By breaking the play store version often. It was not possible for author to update it for several years. Seems it got better recently, but still, to have a full fledged version of Termux, you need to install it from a different source - f-droid, ideally.

https://github.com/termux-play-store

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Maybe…? Depends how good this Google Terminal app will be. I guess

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I’m still waiting for a fully GPU-rendered gnome desktop on my phone. … and an actually working port of libre office.

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Postmarketos is a project that already does that. You can run full fat gnome on a pixel 3a or oneplus 6, though phosh is more polished for daily use.

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Yeah if this isn’t a step on the path to "connect your phone to this [usb-c|thunderbolt|whatevs] dock and you get a full desktop OS, I’m not super interested.

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What’s the catch?

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You will need to run a full Debian VM inside of Android

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*full Ubuntu and you can only install via snap.

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whaaaaaaaaaaaat, stop saying that. I have nightmares enough already

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It will only run a special Google-made distro on a proprietary hypervisor.

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Sounds a bit like the linux container in chromebooks. Looks like Google is planning to merge chrome os and android in future

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Or start a new project to replace both.

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Wasn’t fuchsia that project?

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