Okay, maybe not so dull, but it was more hoops than I figured I’d have to jump through, but I finally got the basics all set up and working!

🐧

Edit: I basically followed this guide:

https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Graphical_Environment

Plus, if you don’t have an external keyboard, I highly suggest the Hackers Keyboard app.

Edit 2, some semi quick testing…

  • Synaptic ✅
  • Firefox ✅
  • GIMP ✅
  • VLC ✅
  • gedit ✅
  • ghex ✅
  • LibreOffice 🚫
    • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      2 days ago

      Hey, it’s on you if you wanna root your own device. This is the simple beauty of Termux, it runs in an isolated environment on non-rooted Android.

      Within Termux itself, you can do whatever you want, sudo not required. You can’t access / though, you can pretty much only access ~

      Unless you know the exact path to your SD card or other storage, that works too…

      sudo does exist though, but mostly just as a compatibility placeholder. Within Termux, you’re basically running as ‘root’, no other user accounts, but not true root, you can’t access the whole filesystem, unless you’re actually already rooted…

      • FukOui@lemmy.zip
        2·
        2 days ago

        I was thinking of converting a phone into a mini server / NAS the other day but I needed sudo to configure some stuff (firewalls, perms, security, rtc) and found it a hassle to root my device

        Dabbled a bit of termux but found it limited to be taken seriously for server workload. Great for poc and personal computing though

  • Cursed_Fig@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 days ago

    That’s it, I’m out. This community has passed into the realm of meaningless catch-all. May as well rename it Dull Blogger Society.

  • hexagonwin@lemmy.today
    4·
    3 days ago

    why not termux-x11?

    by using it i could use my galaxy tab like a laptop woth some weird *nix variant. i could run libreoffice using proot (debian) as well. graphics accel didn’t work because mine was an exynos but it wasn’t a big issue for me, was able to play 720p videos in mpv without any issues.

    the lack of packages in official termux repo was a bit tiring tho, had to ./configure --prefix=$PREFIX; make; make install far too many times. and they don’t ship firefox esr and only have the latest.

    • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
      11·
      4 days ago

      I basically followed this guide here…

      https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Graphical_Environment

      Plus, in case you need an onscreen keyboard with basically all the buttons (you probably will unless you have an external keyboard), I highly suggest Hacker’s Keyboard

      I’m still getting things set up, but yeah it even runs Firefox (but you gotta install that yourself) 👍

      It probably runs quite a bit more than that too, but I need to do some house cleaning to free up some more space. I’m sure I can find some apps I ain’t ever gonna use…

  • nedwben@lemmy.caB
    4·
    4 days ago

    Nice, I just got Debian on my Surface yesterday. The touch sensing isn’t quite adequate though. I might just try one of the rpi touch screens.

    • over_clox@lemmy.worldOP
      7·
      3 days ago

      To test and see what all it can and can’t do.

      I’m pretty impressed honestly. Although it can’t do everything, it can sure do a lot!

      This comment posted from Android > Termux > MultiVLC > Firefox