Tried turning my old Android phone into a Linux server, ended up distro-hopping

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sipofwater · 4h ago

"Motorola moto g play 2024 smartphone, Termux application, and QEMU running under Termux: Booting "Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)" with debian-12-nocloud-amd64.qcow2": https://old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1mkyers/motorola_mot... (old.reddit.com/r/MotoG/comments/1mkyers/motorola_moto_g_play_2024_smartphone_termux/)

theothertimcook · 3h ago

This is cool but if you can't reliably use it to make phone calls, send messages, play music, navigate and pay for shit, it's a less useful device than it was in the first place.

If you could dock it and run your distro to a screen, kb&m, well that's a different story

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Tried turning my old Android phone into a Linux server, ended up distro-hopping

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