proot vs termux-wayland

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proot		termux-wayland
	Project
6	Mentions	3
1,846	Stars	14
2.5%	Growth	-
2.0	Activity	6.1
9 days ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
C	Language	C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

proot

Posts with mentions or reviews of proot. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-10.

Two debian distros, both Termux-X11 and VNC gives black screen on one, workd on the other
2 projects | /r/termux | 10 Dec 2023
Is there hope for Linux on smartphones
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Aug 2022

Since they mentioned proot, that won't require a rooted device, see: https://proot-me.github.io/
I was also able to get a decent Ubuntu distribution including a desktop environment running on a non-rooted device, even got Blender to render the popular BMW demo, though that took a while.
Dockie: manage unprivileged chroots like Docker in a few lines of POSIX shell
7 projects | /r/suckless | 2 Jan 2022

or wherever you want to install it and downloading latest PRoot
Jailed development
4 projects | dev.to | 27 Nov 2021

Install proot and proot-distro via SSH

termux-wayland

Posts with mentions or reviews of termux-wayland. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-19.

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King with OpenGL renderer with GPU acceleraion in Termux proot on OnePlus 8 using Zink and Turnip with KGSL support with old Termux:X11 as DISPLAY
3 projects | /r/termux | 19 Aug 2021

If you want to try it on your own, use new Termux:Wayland insted of Termux:X11 apk. You can find it here: https://github.com/suhan-paradkar/termux-wayland
KDE Plasma 5.22.4 running on Arch Linux ARM64 (Proot-Distro) on XServer XSDL (With Xephyr) with Proot compiled from source (Latest commit)
2 projects | /r/termux | 16 Aug 2021

Termux:Wayland should work faster than Xephyr with Xserver-XSDL https://github.com/suhan-paradkar/termux-wayland
Showcase: Termux Wayland + xfce4 + x11-repo
3 projects | /r/termux | 8 Jul 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing proot and termux-wayland you can also consider the following projects:

ubuntu-in-termux - This is a script by which you can install Ubuntu in your termux application without a rooted device

termux-app - Termux - a terminal emulator application for Android OS extendible by variety of packages.

termux-packages - A package build system for Termux.

proot - An chroot-like implementation using ptrace.

ShellCheck - ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts

mesa - Mesa 3D graphics library (read-only mirror)

termux-fedora - A script to install a Fedora chroot into Termux

manjaro-fs-arm64 - Manjaro rootfs with xfce4 and vncserver preinstalled. Just setup username, password and vnc password. Also one more edition with latest Anki preinstalled.

proot-distro - An utility for managing installations of the Linux distributions in Termux.

TermuxArch - Experience the pleasure of the Linux command prompt in Android, Chromebook, Fire OS and Windows on smartphone, smartTV, tablet and wearable https://termuxarch.github.io/TermuxArch/

lit - Toolkit for developing, sharing, and running luvit/lua programs and libraries.