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What is your must have open source application available on fdroid?

New pipe - the YouTube front end is absolutely critical for my lifestyle.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's really interesting. Are you using a keyboard and mouse? Or is this like on a Android desktop setup?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

By default the app is just a terminal with an on-screen keyboard. Packages installed and run through it are normally terminal only, although there is some amount of support for connecting to a separate app that runs an x server.

There are several other projects that download arm Linux distributions, and install them inside termux to get a full desktop going though. Normally for these you actually interact with the desktop through a VNC client connected to a localhost VNC running on the Linux distro. A VNC client is a good way to handle accessing the desktop since most of them come with a lot of UI design/polish for controlling a desktop computer via a phone screen.