I used to hate android emulators, since the ones I’d tested on Windows were ad-ridden, slow bloatware.

The other day I needed to run an android app on Fedora 40.

I tried Waydroid and it worked very well. The app ran supersmooth as if it was running natively.

Also the cli syntax was very sane an user friendly.

waydroid app install|run|list …

So if you need an Android app on linux the experience might be better than what you think it would be.

  • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
    79·
    8 months ago

    I had a similar positive experience with Gamescope, which tamed a game that freaked out every time I moved the moude onto the other monitor.

    Maybe Wayland’s healthy place is as a secondary window system you launch inside your normal X11 session.

    • Quack Doc@lemmy.world
      1·
      7 months ago

      for many people YES! Both wayland and x11 can work very nicely when nested. For many people wayland will be remain unusable for a very long time, and for many other they are finding that now x11 is unusable for them.

      It’s not a great situation, but with xwayland and running wayland compositors nested (really wish we had an “way11” too, but per app cage works for me) many people’s usecase will remain to be covered