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I also got excited. However some time ago I set up waydroid and once I got it all running smoothly I was like "what now?"
I didn't know any app or game that I wanted to play over the games that I have on my PC.
So my question would be: what do you want to play?
The only way to play galaxy on fire 2 (unironic peak) with all dlc is the android version, and my android phone can't run it because it's a 32bit game. So for me it'd be that.
Galaxy on Fire was so sick. That was the very first game I thought of when I read this
ikr?? It's so underrated
Not me, my kids (4 & 7). I wouldn't play a mobile game, I just want some apps that I can't avoid and aren't available on desktop.
I agree currently, but I'm excited about this because it creates a PC market for mobile games. This is good because mobile games have the worst MTX, but PC games normally can't get away with this. It could (unlikely, but possible) influence them to adapt to more of the PC market style.
Tbh, I'd love to be able to use this less for games and more for just Android apps.
I'd love to move more to a less-Google-owned mobile platform that still has the apps I use and the power to run things. I think the two frontrunners are like /e/OS or GrapheneOS.
But with Lepton: A) there's a better chance of the idea of a Linux-non-Android phone, since Lepton could allow Android apps run on a Linux phone; or B) make Linux tablets better, again with Android apps.
I also have an idea in my head that next "upgrade" I can afford I'll ditch my phone and go for a smartwatch (with 4G/5G) and a tablet (for apps). The best pairing is probably from Samsung, which unfortunately is both Android/Google and now focused on promoting AI features (ew). I'd go for GrapheneOS if I could put it on a tablet of suitable specs, and if a smartwatch would work well with it (which the watch would probably still be Samsung's, but maybe RePebble can do something great?).
But if I could use a Linux tablet? That's a computer at that point, and I could also benefit from having a laptop since there's also things an Android device couldn't do that a computer could (I'm a software dev, it'd be painful on Android). Waydroid/Lepton then supplements the part where there are things Android can do that computers can't, which is just "apps the developer didn't make a webapp/computer app for". Still would have to figure out the watch part, but it's a start
I used Waydroid to get Apple Music running on Linux. It worked, but it wasn't a great experience, not least because it needed to be an older version of the app. Winapps was slightly better, but given that AM is only available as a UWP through the Windows Store, it was a pain in the arse to get running, then buggy when it was.
So these days I just play music through my phone.
Think there is an app called Cider that is apple music. It should be in your Linux app store.
Cider is ok, but doesn't allow for lossless audio.