I've been messing around with Android for years, but seeing the processor that's used in small Linux boxes running Android kept nagging me with a question: what if I install a full Linux desktop on my ...

My phone is more than a phone now.

Although Android technically runs on top of Linux, generally most Android devices abstract away the underlying Linux-ness of these machines. In theory this is a good thing; we wouldn’t necessarily ...

And emulation software allows you to run some x86 apps and games on Arm-based processors, as well as play some Windows games on Linux systems. All of which is to say, it probably shouldn’t be ...

Chris Thomas was a reporter at Android Police from 2022 until 2025. Android is, at its heart, based on the Linux operating system’s kernel. It is heavily modified in many ways, and in practice, an ...