For all my needs of temporary android devices, I use a temporary VM instead. where I install android-x86. Now I am looking for alternatives to this distro. It is a bit slow to use and now dated. Still on android 9.

Any recommendation that are FLOSS? A guide how to install Lineage OS on QEmu or KVM is also a good alternative.

  • MasterBuilder@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    I’m curious - why use a VM ? What is the context here? Are you using a Linux phone and need Android apps to fill gaps, or are you running this in a laptop and use Android in some way I don’t understand?

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      1 year ago

      My use case it to simulate a burner phones to bypass app only subscriptions. I run there applications I don’t trust to run on my own phone and would not afford to buy the a new phone for everything.

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            1 year ago

            Well, if I’m on my laptop, I just use the browser. It’s much easier, and they don’t sqawk at me because it is “rooted” - even though it has always been rooted.