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Local Desktop | Linux on Android (localdesktop.github.io)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by yodeljunkmanenvy@piefed.social to c/android@lemmy.world

Local Desktop helps you run a desktop Linux environment on your Android device.

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[-] MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

The maintainer embeds Google Ads into news/blog section of statically generated webpage that’s supposed to contain documentation, hosted on GitHub… I am surprised, fascinated and disgusted.

[-] mesamunefire@piefed.social 0 points 1 week ago

Looks promising!

Does anyone happen to know if the app can auto-run at startup? Im having a heck of a time getting auto-start to work on termux + Apache2. If the phone powers down and then gets power later, I have to physically unlock and restart termux at the moment. Kinda sucks. But if local desktop can do something similar AND can start when the phone starts that would be a slam dunk for me.

[-] Horsey@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Remember too , no snapdragon processor supports bare metal Linux terminal at the moment. Only Mediatek and Google Tensor for now.

[-] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

I thought one or two of the Samsung foldables with snapdragons supported it.

[-] Horsey@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You might be thinking of the flip 7 which actually comes with an exynos chip in all regions.

[-] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 0 points 1 week ago

Not as far as their official marketing materials say image

this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2026
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