On Fri, Aug 09, 2024 at 12:17:44PM +0200, Alain Gougeon wrote: > I have an Android phone (a Samsung A55, with Android 14), and I read it is > possible to install Linux on Android. My phone is corporate but has a > personal and a corporate space. I am able to install apps on my personal > space, so I presume I would be able to install some Linux on it and then > gnubg on that Linux.
> So my question now is: is this actually feasible? Does it actually work, or > is the interface unusable on a regular smartphone sized screen, or too > slow, or probably too complicated to achieve? Has anybody tried? Any > preferred Linux? This might be feasible (if the installed Linux comes with a GUI and not just a terminal) but the interface may indeed be awkward to use, not so much because of the screen size but because of the input device. A mouse is easy to use, a touchpad as well once you get used to it, but a touchscreen is more suspect if the GUI is not designed for it. If available, a more reasonable similar solution would be to use Windows WSLg (https://github.com/microsoft/wslg) on your laptop although this his is not something you could install yourself (initial setup needs administrator priviledges).
