No, Valve not “working on this very thing” — Valve working on proton that will work with linux on ARM, thing doing x86 <> ARM emulation/recompilation is called FEX. The thing is — it only works and made for linux, not for Android. If you want to run it on android, you need to use chroot in termux or any other method to run full linux inside android first. It’s not native android tool by any mean and probably will never be, cause android suck ass.
Steam Frame is amazing exactly because it’s not another useless android phone/device, it’s a hardware free from android, that runs full fledged standalone arch linux on qualcom snaprldragon! Arch on ARM for fuck sake
Android is sufficiently Linux still (having it as a kernel and all) to run Linux binaries as long at you can supply the dependencies. FEX + Wine/Proton does most of the job for you, and works on Android too.
The other interesting Android related thing Frame does is Android app containers, which will help Android emulation on PC in general. (inb4 Gamenative on Frame)
No, Valve not “working on this very thing” — Valve working on proton that will work with linux on ARM, thing doing x86 <> ARM emulation/recompilation is called FEX. The thing is — it only works and made for linux, not for Android. If you want to run it on android, you need to use chroot in termux or any other method to run full linux inside android first. It’s not native android tool by any mean and probably will never be, cause android suck ass.
Steam Frame is amazing exactly because it’s not another useless android phone/device, it’s a hardware free from android, that runs full fledged standalone arch linux on qualcom snaprldragon! Arch on ARM for fuck sake
GameNative uses FEX.
While I agree that ARM Linux is superior to Android in a lot of ways, Valve’s work on FEX will benefit Android as well.
Android is sufficiently Linux still (having it as a kernel and all) to run Linux binaries as long at you can supply the dependencies. FEX + Wine/Proton does most of the job for you, and works on Android too.
The other interesting Android related thing Frame does is Android app containers, which will help Android emulation on PC in general. (inb4 Gamenative on Frame)