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Update 'Linux desktop in an old Android tablet.'

Guillem Borrell Nogueras 2022-08-06 23:48:55 +02:00
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I bought a cheap tablet some years ago, a Samsung Galaxy Tab A (2016). It's very modest in terms of performance: 8 cores (although only 4 of them are actually useful), and 2 GB of RAM, but it's still useful.
I used to run some linux applications with [Termux](https://termux.dev/en/), but all my attempts to update the application were unsuccessful. Termux used to be available in the Playstore, but now I have to install F-droid, and enable a good amount of additional permissons just for an unsuccessful install attempt.
Running the usual linux userspace applications is really useful to test systems stuff and I don't have any linux server handy, so I decided to spend a couple more hours finding an alternative.
I found [UserLAnd](https://userland.tech/), a tiny application that allows to run multiple linux distributions and applications in Android. It's simpler and it provides more features than Termux. What you want a linux distro running in Android, you I tried to run the desktop version of Ubuntu, but I was unsuccessful too, so I went the hacker way.