the one thing linux really hasnt been made on par with winblows yet is the dreadful amount of options for android simulation -the most popular choice seems to be Waydroid, but its such an unneeded hassle to set up at all -genymotion is just slow -and than you have things like android x86 which entirely defeat the point of an emulator

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    1 year ago

    Perhaps because scrcpy exists? It’s very easy to mirror an Android device on the PC with it and control it with mouse and keyboard, and everybody has an Android device around. So why bother emulating one.

    The ones with the most need to emulate are app developers and Android Studio does have an emulator included iirc.

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      Yeah… I feel the intent here isn’t to use the same Android installation on a bigger screen - it’s about taking back control and setting up Android environments on your own terms without unnecessary hardware. It’s a totally different use case.