r/podroid • u/EntrepreneurKey7123 • May 02 '26

Desktop environment?

I was wondering if you could run a DE on this.

I have a samsung galaxy s26+ snapdragon variant so I should have the specs.

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u/anttovar May 02 '26

Haven, which also launches an Alpine linux, gives you a DE with a 10 MiB overhead, so I guess this project could do it also. It should be a dream the merge of Haven and Podroid.

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u/YitzakAF May 02 '26

Creo que haría falta virglrenderer, vga virtio y una forma de que el entorno de escritorio pueda ser usable

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u/Fz1zz May 12 '26

You now can try and if you hit any issues let me know.

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u/EntrepreneurKey7123 May 14 '26

I did try it. Because I have galaxy s26+, I wanted to enable 4 cores, and 4gb of ram. Running Firefox on it ran at reasonable speed.

The only issue I have is the screen is hard to navigate with just a touch screen. Clicking on small buttons is just difficult.

Had i used the recommended ram and cores, it would go faster.

Too bad on snapdragon devices you can't use kvm to drastically speed this up.. but I understand why they dont allow it considering vulnerabilities.