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nix-on-droid: Nix-enabled environment for your Android device - GitHub (github.com)
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It does not require root, user namespaces support or disabling SELinux, but it relies on proot and other hacks instead. It uses a fork of Termux-the-terminal-emulator app, but has no relation to Termux-the-distro.

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[–] Grizzlywer@feddit.org 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is nice, but iirc it doesn't allow for GUI applications

[–] ruffsl@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Only not by itself, no? Couldn't it be combined with any of those X11 server apps for hosting a display socket over the local loop back?

[–] Grizzlywer@feddit.org 2 points 3 months ago

Thanks for sharing, I will try it out later