Intro

I get a lot of my development work done on Android devices. That usually means a large tablet, but it’s not impossible to get work done on smaller tablets or even phones (although the smaller you go, the harder it is to maintain ergonomics and practicality).

With Termux/PRoot Distro/Termux:X11 (explained below) I can run all of my most-used Linux apps just like I was sitting at a desktop, silently (ie no fans) and efficiently.

Performance on my S8 Ultra tablet is great — not as fast as the latest most powerful laptops but perfectly comfortable for my usage patterns.

A shortcut to a simple Termux script means I can tap an icon on my Android home screen and boot into the beautiful emptiness of an Ubuntu DWM session in about 5 seconds.