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This is really interesting stuff, found it on Hacker News. It's like WINE, but for Android <-> Linux: https://gitlab.com/android_translation_layer/android_translation_layer/

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[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 8 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

[Genuine] Okay, why when Freetube exists though?

[–] PureTryOut@lemmy.kde.social 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is not about Newpipe itself but more that fact that this is an Android app ran on desktop Linux, without any containers like Waydroid does. This is like Wine, but for Android apps.

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks for explaining!

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