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What do you use Waydroid for? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I tried Waydroid on Arch and its amazing. It runs Android apps flawlessly. And with a touchscreen device, I feel like I have an Android tablet running inside my Linux machine.

But I still don't know what to use it for...

What apps do you use with Waydroid? What use cases do you have for it?

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Well yes, but also no.

Whenever you search for a solution to your problem, it stems from the realization that something is a problem. But sometimes, you have a thing which has been done for a longtime, it was a problem with no solution and you've had to accept that. How would you determine one day that things can be done differently and better without constantly reevaluating everything? It's not realistic.

In my view, it is a perfectly reasonable question to ask "what problem does waydroid solve?" To figure out if you have that issue and you didn't know of this solution.

Sorry, just my 2 cents.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Also, Learning is Fun, so here I have a new toy, let's have fun seeing what I can learn to do with it, then - as you say - that might solve a problem or improve a thing I hadn't thought of before.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Too right.
Someone needs to make a start on the "periodic table of emulators" It might as well be OP.