This 2000's Linux era vibes Did you ever search for “Rambo Tux”? Those images are a journey, not gonna lie. image was probably created by the author of a bulgarian blog lost to time. I always thought that the Linux hardware probe logo was funny and weird and decided to investigate.

Fast Guide

1. Install Termux from F-Droid . Scroll until you find “download apk”
2. Install Andronix from the Play Store
3. Open Andronix and follow the setup guide
4. Click “Open Termux” and paste the command
5. DONE. It’s that simple, you now have Linux in your pocket

Things I use Linux on Android for

• SSH into machines
• Automatically translating and captioning videos I want to share with my non-English-speaking friends
  • Uses whisper and ffmpeg
• Random PoC stuff
• Experimenting with new software
• VIM (surprisingly good on an Android keyboard)
• Anything I need to do on a computer when I’m not close to one

Termux

I’ve been using Termux for a long time, probably since I got my first Android device, and I’m really happy with it. It’s a terminal emulator for Android. The kind of software that just works. But there are some very annoying things about it:

• It uses a package manager called pkg, which is a great name but…
  • This package manager lacks things that apt and other managers have
  • Mirrors are slow outside North America and Europe
  • It corrupts the package cache randomly
• It has this weird maintainer situation where it’s recommended you don’t download it from playstore
• Customization sometimes is not standard and done in a “termux way”
  • This means there are rare incompatibility situations

Me watching Star Wars using the telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl command, because that’s what terminals were invented for.

Introducing Andronix

I don’t know why I never knew about it before, because the trick here is simple: run the Linux distribution within Termux.

Neofetch is so good and fancy.

From here, you’re in a “more normal Linux environment,” I would say. It has everything regular Linux distros have. Another crazy thing, in my opinion, is that you can even run GUI applications. Another cool thing is that you can make a purchase to unlock specially made distros patched for ease of use.

For now I haven’t had the need to run GUI applications, but I’m definitely going to try it on a larger-screen device.

That’s all, I hope this article was useful This article was written in the middle of Brazil’s Carnival on a Sunday, when I was also going out to party. Another thing I was excited about that day was a very meaningful birthday I was going to attend. . Go try it! Andronix probably has your favorite Linux flavor there. These kinds of weird tech experiments remind me of when I was first learning about computers; we never know what is ahead.