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.

  • MasterBuilderEnglish
    3·
    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?

    • dragnucs@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      10·
      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.

      • MasterBuilderEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        Brilliant! I’m stealing that idea. I love it when I learn useful tricks!

          • MasterBuilderEnglish
            2·
            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.