termux-archlinux VS proot-distro

Arch Linux can be installed on Android with Termux

I run scipy and numpy on my phone with it. A bit painful but I wrote a few thousand lines of ML code with vim on my cell phone in the last two months.

https://github.com/SDRausty/termux-archlinux/

The absolute easiest way to do it is to just use something like termux-archlinux, and then you can just install Neovim with the package manager of your choice. However as I noted above, I find that a chroot-ed (to provide a FHS-compliant filesystem) option is extremely slow. It might be worth a try though; I have an old Samsung S8 that has seen better days so perhaps newer stuff would perform better.

It should work as expected; https://github.com/SDRausty/termux-archlinux/issues/60 has more information.

Libre Office should work as expected; these issues; https://github.com/SDRausty/termux-archlinux/issues/60 https://github.com/SDRausty/TermuxArch/issues/252 https://github.com/SDRausty/termux-archlinux/issues/60 https://github.com/TermuxArch/TermuxArch/issues/7 have more information.

Why not just use https://github.com/SDRausty/termux-archlinux ?

I don't check the current versions of distributions every day. So if someone find that new release is available, an issue can be opened at https://github.com/termux/proot-distro/issues.

PRoot Distro is official subproject of Termux developed by me.

VSCode CLI has a package built for Alpine Linux. Use proot-distro or (shameless plug) distroot (a startup script) to install Alpine Linux in Termux.

Folks who want a more traditional linux environment and libraries then what termux comes with might find proot-distro[1] to meet their needs. Basically it allows running an actual arm linux distro in a pseudo container created by (ab)using the ptrace syscall to emulate root privileges. This has a fairly big performance impact, but it works if you want to run arbitrary arm linix binaries.

[1] https://github.com/termux/proot-distro

It is a clickbait. The "root" permission in this video is called proot which is to install a Linux container in Termux. The programs runs in container would think they are running in a real Linux environment.

in case the tutorial was confusing (I'll leave some reference links) Vnc Viewer: https://github.com/adi1090x/termux-desktop Proot-distro: https://github.com/termux/proot-distro

Btop is a system monitoring tool. It runs very well on Termux, but only works with Android 7.0 (API 24) to 7.1.2 (API 25) without root. (Android 8.1+ will not work due to security reasons, unless you switched SELinux Permissive to be enabled #8566). > Device: Samsung Galaxy J5 (2016) (PH model) (samsung SM-J510GN) CPU: Qualcomm Snapdragon 410 (MSM8916) (4x Cortex-A53 at 1.2GHz) Kernel Version: 3.10.49-12384086 dpi@SWDD5806 #1 Fri Mar 16 14:12:44 KST 2018 Android Version: 7.1.1 (from 6.0.1) with Samsung Experience 8.5 Architecture: armeabi-v7a (32-bit) SELinux status: Enforcing Termux Version: 0.118.0 Proot version: 5.1.107-54 (Proot Distro 3.1.1) Btop version: 1.2.7 (Debian package)

Have you tried downloading a fresh disk image to test since you know the password now? Also, since you're trying to run aarch64 opensuse on termux, it may be a better idea performance-wise to use Proot and/or proot-distro. PRoot doesn't have the overhead that qemu does, so if you don't need any special hardware features then it may work better for you.