Okay, maybe not so dull, but it was more hoops than I figured I'd have to jump through, but I finally got the basics all set up and working!

🐧

Edit: I basically followed this guide:

https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Graphical_Environment

Plus, if you don't have an external keyboard, I highly suggest the Hackers Keyboard app.

Edit 2, some semi quick testing...

  • Synaptic ✅
  • Firefox ✅
  • GIMP ✅
  • VLC ✅
  • gedit ✅
  • ghex ✅
  • LibreOffice 🚫
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[–] 2 points 4 months ago*

I was thinking of converting a phone into a mini server / NAS the other day but I needed sudo to configure some stuff (firewalls, perms, security, rtc) and found it a hassle to root my device

Dabbled a bit of termux but found it limited to be taken seriously for server workload. Great for poc and personal computing though

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