[thrwawy283]

I just want to run a VM on an iPad. I don't consider the iPad or Apple to be the best device to protect my privacy, but it is the most comfortable tablet/portable experience. What I read last, was that Google is adding it's "Tensor" processors to its Nexus phones, and Android 13 will allow running full VMs as "apps" within Android. That's what we want to happen on the Apple side.

I don't like Android or iOS fully. I want the freedom of a full Linux distro. I think we're going to transition to that over many years. The next step is Linux (Android) running Linux in a VM. Once Apple sees that expect a competing technology on the iPad. Then we'll have real tablet development machines. It will take years more for Linux desktop environments to gain a tablet experience as comfortable as iOS. :\

[pjmlp]

Ironically iPadOS has much better offerings for on device development than any Android tablet, with exception of Samsung's Dex.

[goosedragons]

Dex is just a fancy window manager. With Termux and an Alpine or Ubuntu proot there's very little even a Kindle Fire can't do on the device. It's even possible to run X11 and a desktop environment like XFCE4.

[pjmlp]

Not on modern Android, given the lockdown on NDK APIs, while Termux folks refuse to embrace JNI instead of private Linux syscalls (as per Google's point of view).

[FerretFred]

There's Pythonista - works pretty well, and you can import modules. I use it for messing around with MQTT. http://omz-software.com/pythonista/