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FYI: There’s also AnLinux, Linux Deploy, Termux, tainer, UserLAnd, …
Some of them aren’t maintained anymore. And they don’t necessarily have hardware-acceleration. But don’t all require root and system patches.
Termux works fine get it from F-droid only
I’m not sure why you would need a GUI on a GUI phone
Because many graphical apps don’t run natively on Android. They do on Linux.
eg. a full web browser, proper IDE or more powerful image manipulation program.
what do you mean by full web browsers?
Even though FF Android has been getting closer and closer to having all features of FF Desktop, like Extensions, therefore UA switcher, and a way to pretend to be a desktop browser, I’m still missing full responsiveness settings (ie. pretending the size of your browser is like a tablet) and browser editing tools. The actual FF desktop program, running via Termux in a Linux environment, would have all these features.
and a way to pretend to be a desktop browser,
I don’t think that’s a platform or software problem but rather an issue where the feature-to-bug ratio isn’t worth it.
I’m not saying that Firefox for Android is perfect or that no further development is needed, but using the desktop version of Firefox to guide the development of the Android version is a waste. It needs better feature integration with the platform rather than a 1:1 copy of its desktop variant.
The software you are suggesting are in my honest opinion not worth the squeeze. it’s like asking Bicycle with engine and complaining about it not being efficient as the motorbike. Just use the bike while making bicycle better in it’s own way.
I did not want to suggest those features should be forced into the Android version, the normie user wouldn’t like that anyway, but those are the exact cases where an actual desktop browser, via Termux, is useful.
Hmm… I wonder if I could run pihole in an onboard container and force all my local device traffic through it…
You could use Termux for this. However, you won’t be able to use containers. You would need to either build it from sources or run it in proot. I also think the DNS settings in Android are limited so you may have trouble getting it to work. You would need pihole to listen on a random available port and then somehow get android to send DNS to that port. So it probably wouldn’t work.
However, your welcome to try just make sure you use the F-droid version of Termux.