[dredmorbius]

Suffocating for lack of packages?

I'll note that Termux has about 1/3 the package count of RHEL / CentOS. It's not everything, but for a mobile distro, it's quite good.

That said:

1. Thanks for the Arch suggestion. I'll take a look at that. Root required?

2. Even with a full-fledged distro installed, if you're running unrooted Android you're still grossly crippled by the overarching (so to speak) Android system in terms of filesystem and process management and interference.

[axytol]

Since they mentioned proot, that won't require a rooted device, see: https://proot-me.github.io/

I was also able to get a decent Ubuntu distribution including a desktop environment running on a non-rooted device, even got Blender to render the popular BMW demo, though that took a while.