Simple: if It titilates you, some third party will be bothered by your titilation.-

PS. And then the payment processor will drop your titilation provider, because, of course, we can't have that ...

The absolute killer feature for this is the ability to finally play Minecraft Java Edition on phones.

Instead of running in the terminal, this "just" seems to launch a full Wayland session from the terminal.

Anybody know if the actual terminal supports pixel graphics via Sixels, or better Kitty Graphics Protocol?

Standard Debian-with-root Arm package repo in pKVM hardware-nested VM with OpenGL (v)GPU remoting! So many years of upstream work across Linux, Android and ChromeOS to make this possible. Now we need phone/tablet OEMs to support Android Virtualization Framework (AVF) and OpenTitan-derived enclaves, so this feature can move beyond Pixel hardware.

https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/blog/2025/01/15/the-...

> GFX virtualization aims at providing support for hardware accelerated 3D graphics in virtual machines. Unlike GPU-passthrough, with GFX virtualization the host and all VM guests can access the host GPU simultaneously. Vulkan and OpenGL are supported by virglrenderer using various approaches.. vDRM is a much thinner layer.. able to achieve native GPU performance, where VirGL and Venus may struggle to overcome expensive host/guest synchronizations..at the beginning of 2025, vDRM is partially supported by crosvm.

Hopefully Google's phone-tablet-laptop-desktop convergence of Android, ChromeOS and developer-targeted Debian Linux will motivate Apple to restore iPadOS 16.2 (2022!) virtualization support, https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/discussions/5748.

So...can we run SteamOS then on android?

Does `ls -Z` work in Android Terminal?

(SELinux has run in enforcing mode on Android devices since Android 4.4, which was released in 2013. But Android in ChromeOS only runs SELinux in the guest VM FWIU)

This is great. We build a graphical MUD client (Mudlet) that's available for Linux/macOS/Windows, but Android support has (so far) eluded us. Would be amazing if this ran a native Linux binary.

Of course, UI adjustments would be the next step!

What is the general consensus on the usability of the Terminal app?

On two different Pixel phones (6a & 8a) I had a terrible experience:

- Very slow

- Crash all the time

- The app need to be reinitialised almost every day

But I have heard some people have no complain.

Also, since I couldn't really keep it alive long enough: what as the prospects in terms of battery usage? will it be realistic to have it running all time in the background?

Why does this run in a virtual machine (per the article) and not a container?

We'll see how well, or not, it works with the TalkBack screen reader.

So what phone that I can get right now that runs linux with external monitor and 12+GB of RAM?

So, is this the year of desktop on Linux on mobile? /s

Is this another one we can blame on Ursula v.d. Leyen et al. or it's enough for today? Sorry, I was late to the previous 900+ comment thread, because I was busy having my mandatory 2h evening walk after having 2 hour late lunch break.

This is obviously very cool and how I've always wanted my phone to work. But what does chocolate factory gain out of this? I appreciate it, but I don't have the savvy to figure out how this advertising supported business profits from it.

Is there any way to install this on non-Pixel phones yet?