Google is developing a Terminal app for Android that'll let you run Linux apps. It'll download and run Debian in a VM for you.
  • DerinEnglish
    2•2 months ago

    You’re totally right, but I wasn’t assuming they had a rooted phone.

    Is there any difference between the native shell and Termux’s? I just installed fish and chsh’ed it to default: after syncing over all my dotfiles it looks and acts as expected.

    • Ace! _SL/SEnglish
      2•2 months ago

      Is there any difference between the native shell and Termux’s? I just installed fish and chsh’ed it to default: after syncing over all my dotfiles it looks and acts as expected.

      I did the same, but that’s not what I’m talking about.

      I don’t know for sure, but if I hat to guess I’d say that Termux uses chroot to emulate a more Linuxy experience by changing your root to /data/data/com.termux/files/ with it’s own bin, etc, lib and so on directories

      Using su you escape that chroot and start using your roms root directory at /

      I might be totally wrong with this, but that should hopefully clarify the way it behaves

      • DerinEnglish
        2•2 months ago

        Aah, okay.

        I don’t mind the chroot too much, especially as you can just use Termux’s termux-setup-storage script for accessing files.

        But, yeah, I can see how one would want to use su for that!