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Android now features a Native Linux terminal app, running a genuine Linux VM within the OS. I enabled it tonight and SSH'd into it from my machine- so long Termux.

Soon google replaces ChromeOS in Chromebooks with Android and not too far into the future we'll see more people using Android as their main workstation OS

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this is different in the same way Linux (WSL2) on Windows is different from previous attempts to run linux on Windows. It's not necessarily dual purpose, it's more like expanding the capabilities of Android

To be honest, there have been many unofficial desktop ports of Android, even ox x86, an official Android that is dual-purpose sounds good.

Though much must change in Android to be able to be a full desktop OS, mobile OSes are much more restrictive, with security and long tasks, they limit the developer much much more than a Desktop OS, and there are also considerably worse on privacy than any desktop OS.

But Windows had a least in the past dual-purpose variants, as a single installation, I haven't checked if they do that anymore now.

I worry about my chrome os flex! I don’t want android lol