proot vs termux-wayland

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proot		termux-wayland
	Project
74	Mentions	3
707	Stars	14
2.5%	Growth	-
4.7	Activity	6.1
7 days ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
C	Language	C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	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

I suspect some component was upgraded (glib?) and it use some functions that are not handled well by proot. Report issue to https://github.com/termux/proot/issues in order to have chances get it solved for yourself and others with this "black screen" problem.
FreeBSD 14.0 Delivering Great Performance Uplift
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Nov 2023

I needed to look at your comment for 10 minutes before I got what you mean. So you want containers that run on any POSIX operating systems?
You can do this with ptrace() which is in POSIX, but its going to be slow for i/o heavy applications. Unfortunately POSIX doesn't provide anything else (seccomp would already be a step up). See also proot[1], gVisor[2] and User Mode Linux[3] which all use ptrace().
[1] https://github.com/termux/proot
[2] https://gvisor.dev/docs/architecture_guide/platforms/#implem...
[3] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.9/virt/uml/user_mode_linu...
WHAT ARE FILES .l2s.*
2 projects | /r/termux | 11 Jun 2023

Documentation does not exist. Just like in best traditions of open source software typically maintained by one person. Look the proot source code instead. Here is the link to extension source code: https://github.com/termux/proot/blob/master/src/extension/link2symlink/link2symlink.c
Ubuntu 22.04 on android 12
1 project | /r/termux | 8 Jun 2023

You'll probably want to do that inside of a proot environment.
The /sys filesystem is not mounted. If you are running in a chroot environment, bind-mount missing filesystems. on opensuse
1 project | /r/termux | 6 Jun 2023

Now regarding proot: it can't have higher privileges than your Termux shell session, despite the user "root" which may possibly appear. It was told many times here on Reddit, Termux GitHub and even Wiki (https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/PRoot) that PRoot does not give extra privileges and root user is fake.
Termux is an Android terminal emulator and Linux environment app
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Apr 2023

I understand the sentiment, but I disagree. From the last time I checked, the big compromise with GNU/Linux phones is still the lack of social media and messaging apps and appstore ecosystem. Android, with root, is every bit as much a computer as a Pinephone and Librem 5, but the opposite isn't true. Termux has PRoot, a user-space implementation of chroot allowing a full distro install. I personally don't have any problem depending on Google, I have a problem with things being locked away with no alternative. Given the option, I will happily accept the risks and void my warray to root.
https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/PRoot
Problem with installing any aur package
1 project | /r/archlinux | 2 Apr 2023
Are there any up to date Linux emulators
1 project | /r/fossdroid | 26 Feb 2023
Ideas ??
3 projects | /r/termux | 17 Feb 2023
AndroLinux
1 project | /r/termux | 12 Feb 2023

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:

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

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

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

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

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

proot - chroot, mount --bind, and binfmt_misc without privilege/setup for Linux

termux-packages - A package build system for 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.

termux-x11 - Not released and unmaintained Termux X11 add-on application.

ShellCheck - ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts

x11-packages - A set of packages using X11 Windows System.