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Google is preparing to let you run Linux apps on Android, just like Chrome OS (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 4 days ago by Blaze@lemmy.zip to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 26 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Are what point do they stop pretending and just make it a pure linux platform with a different packaging format for any linux app to run in? They are doing it with CROS (or whatever the new Chrome on Linux OS is being called) and maybe it's time to do it with Android. Running a VM just seems quite wasteful.

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[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 28 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Desktop Linux has nearly no app security. So the VM approach is a malware prevention. Android is the most used OS in the world.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

AppArmor no?

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Mainly for server applications, not for protecing like your .bashrc, your .ssh or .gnupg folder etc.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

You cam teach it expected behaviour of apps...but for .folders I would say that falls under SELinux, which seems to have a learning curve to it

[–] lemmy_user_838586@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I would muuuch rather a full Linux phone, and run Android apps in waydroid then have an android phone and run Linux apps in a VM...

I wish postmarketOS had a fully working phone that you could daily drive that was slightly more modern and worked on USA networks.

[–] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 9 points 4 days ago

But Google would much rather keep all of the data for themselves. If you could actually control what’s happening in your phone, it could interfere with Google’s main business model.