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WhatsApp running through android-translation-layer (no container!) on Linux desktop
(lemmy.kde.social)
Since https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1gdhy7u/experimental_flathub_release_of_newpipe_on_linux/ got a bit of traction yesterday, this is WhatsApp straight from Meta running on Linux desktop using android-translation-layer.
android-translation-layer (ATL) is a Wine-like approach to run Android applications on Linux. Rather than running an Android container like for example Waydroid does this instead implements the Android API. Note that right now it's very much work in progress and almost no app will work yet, but the fact that they have apps like Newpipe and WhatsApp running already is very promising!
Join the Matrix chat at #android-translation-layer:matrix.org and follow along!
I can feel it in the air. This is going to take off just like how wine and proton took off. We are going to go through another "Linux gaming" rush all over again and this shit is going to be fun. Let's go!!!
Wine was first released in 1993. I hope our children are there to see the take off.
I don't think you should compare the two progresses. Technology is much better now. So, things will definitely move much faster than they did back in the 90s.
There is slightly more openness to androids layers than the win32 layers as well.
I still remember symlinking to binaries in my windows system folder back in the late 90s to be able to run office 95 under Linux. (The MSFT system files permitted some things to work properly that just didn't with the wine provided libraries back then)
Didn't it take off in the late 90's within Linux communities?
So I'd give this a few years, then.
in the late ’90s*
Username checks out ig, but really now?
Really. Apostrophes are used for possession & contractions (not making words plural). In this case, you are omitting the 19 from the decade starting at 1990. What is plural is the years inside that decade, meaning the 10s place. All to say, it is 100% ’90s*.
I meant to say it was pedantic, and thus a bit unnecessary.
One man’s pedentry is another man’s pet peeve. This is a syntactic error that isn’t just a typo but a misunderstanding of the mechanics of apostrophes.
I don't see how it could ever be misunderstood.
A missing comma can change the literal meaning of a sentence; “let's eat, grandpa” vs “let's eat grandpa” comes to mind.
But even then anyone would understand what the second sentence is supposed to mean.
Given that, this apostrophe really wasn't an issue.
Think of the phrase: about music. “90’s music” would imply music from specifically 90 (probably 1990 where we assume the writer was lazy about the initial apostrophe)—possessive form. “’90s music” uses ’90s as an adjective for the entire decade—and with the preceeding apostrophe makes it clearer 19 is omitted. 1 year versus 10 years as a big difference. Using an apostrophe in the right place clearly removes the ambiguity.
It was an error. It happens, and too many people do it so next time maybe you won’t with a good habit being formed.
Just ignore the existence of proton, despite it being mentioned by name.
Yeah but I imagine porting a JVM and an API using open source code is much easier than reversing the Windows API.
I definitely hope so, so far it's looking promising!
So the native gnu userspace will become the third most used desktop linux runtime :P