scripts.TermuxArch vs proot

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scripts.TermuxArch		proot
	Project
2	Mentions	6
20	Stars	1,841
-	Growth	2.3%
0.0	Activity	2.0
about 2 years ago	Latest Commit	5 days ago
Shell	Language	C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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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.

scripts.TermuxArch

Posts with mentions or reviews of scripts.TermuxArch. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-05.

How to compile proot?
2 projects | /r/termux | 5 Oct 2021

This https://github.com/TermuxArch/scripts.TermuxArch/blob/master/frags/taprootuserland.bash script should compile the Userland varient. You might want to edit it a little bit to get the varient without Userland builtin.
x11 vs proot
3 projects | /r/termux | 27 Jun 2021

https://github.com/TermuxArch/scripts.TermuxArch/blob/master/scripts/frags/stdoutbench.sh provides Termux screen output benchmarks; Share them with us please.

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

What are some alternatives?

When comparing scripts.TermuxArch and proot you can also consider the following projects:

proot - An chroot-like implementation using ptrace.

termux-wayland - Not released and unmaintained Termux X11 add-on application.

TermuxArch - You can use setupTermuxArch.bash 📲 to install Arch Linux in Amazon, Android, Chromebook and Windows. https://sdrausty.github.io/TermuxArch/docs/install

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

termux-packages - A package build system for Termux.

termux-archlinux - You can use setupTermuxArch.bash 📲 to install Arch Linux in Termux on Amazon, Android, Chromebook and Windows. https://sdrausty.github.io/termux-archlinux/

ShellCheck - ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts

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/

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

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.