Comment by aucisson_masque a day ago
I think the next version of Android is supposed to include a terminal that can run Linux.
I don't know the specifics but it would be better than having to root the phone and use chroot.
It's sad that a phone running java on top of Linux isn't able to run Linux app without big downside like termux and proot. Hopefully it changes.
Android has a terminal in the newer beta versions, indeed - a proper one
it was sorta possible before too, but now, it can start up programs with a window etc (and of course someone ran doom on it)
I have Android 15 (regular release) and it's there. Feels snappy I didn't use it to run desktop environment though.
Yes, this is Debian, apt is present and working. I was able to install & use mtr for example.
However for python I got "no install candidate". Probably doable after adding necessary package repos
> It's sad that a phone running java on top of Linux isn't able to run Linux app
It can. It just can't run something expecting glibc, X11, Wayland, or any of the other large number of userspace libraries that Android doesn't have.
But a pure Linux app works no problem. Just shell in and run it, easy.