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Also, I want to clarify by dual-purpose I didn't mean dual OS, or anything related to WSL, by dual-purpose, I meant the same operating system optimized for two types of devices, and the optimization can switch by using a setting, some specialized windows 10 versions had something like that meant to run both on mobile and on a PC, and the mode was controlled by the user.
Android is an easy target for that because it uses Linux kernel and in order to optimize for desktop there are only a few areas where you need to work.
Again is not super related to the virtualization of Debian on Android, only if they expand that virtualization to run as a full-fledged system which is super possible since you already virtualize the whole OS, in that case, it would be more akin to WSL2.
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Correct it's not shared like WSL1 was, WSL1 actually had much better performance(at least at the file system) than WSL2 which uses docker and is virtualized, but it was too hard to rewrite all syscalls through native Windows and that's why we have WSL2 which has 100/100 compatibility with any distribution + some access to windows stuff.
I saw that the news is just for a terminal but still, the Android system will virtualize the whole Debian distro, so at some point, I don't see why you could not run UI on that instance.
With WSL2 you can run Linux UIs on Windows.
But that's beside the point because what I want, is more like a wish.
With Android, it's much simpler to convert to a dual-purpose OS because Android natively runs on Linux, and is just a modified Java VM(DVM) with a set of APIs on top of Linux.
If they ever want to make a variant of Android optimized for Desktop, they don't need to implement kernel level code, just reimplement some stuff mostly in the userspace which should be easier.
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