Is this video a legitimate way to get Linux on LineageOS via Termux or is there a better recent method?
Is this video a legitimate way to get Linux on LineageOS via Termux or is there a better recent method?
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First off all, it's a legitimate way. He just goes through the install instructions from here (https://github.com/termux/termux-x11).
The one thing I would do differently is choosing the right package for your architecture or going with the universal package instead of the arm64 package as he proposes.
Lastly I want to add that that depending on what you want to do a graphical session is sometimes not necessary. Example: For tools like mov-cli for watching movie in the terminal, termux alone is enough, because they integrate with the android mpv app and don't need a xorg session to display graphics.
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That makes sense much appreciated!! Do you think it would work for LineageOS too?
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It does work, I have been using it for a long time now in context of my interest of using a phone as a PC.
https://xdaforums.com/t/phone-as-a-pc.4633441/Thing is that with just termux, you get just the android/termux environment.
There is a way to get more familiar Linux environments running on your phone by using proot from within termux.
https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/PRoot
For example, using that you can install ARM version of Manjaro, which is basically the same thing that you would run on Raspberry Pi.
But everything in there runs a bit slower, because Proot is some layer that takes up a bit of performance.
Benefit of that is that you can run some Linux software that is not found within Termux packages, but is available in the repositories of other distros. Libreoffice is one such example.
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