Google's "Linux development environment" for Android: Is this the end of termux?

3 sipofwater 4 8/20/2025, 7:03:49 PM old.reddit.com ↗

Comments (4)

sipofwater · 6h ago

See also: https://old.reddit.com/r/AnythingGoesNews/comments/1mpxd6w/h... (old.reddit.com/r/AnythingGoesNews/comments/1mpxd6w/handson_we_ran_full_desktop_linux_apps_on_an/n8mou5j/)

mystifyingpoi · 6h ago

I mean, maybe, but does it matter? Time will tell, I'll just use whatever is more convenient. I use Termux everyday, but I'll happily switch if the native option is better.

d3Xt3r · 5h ago

Ironically, the "native" option isn't really native, it's a virtual machine.

Termux on the other hand is actually native, your Linux apps are running natively on Android's Linux kernel, no virtualisation involved.

mouse_ · 6h ago

WSL was far from the end of msys2/cygwin. This will be the same.