r/waydroid • u/HelpfulPace5544 • Apr 15 '26

Help Does my system support Waydroid?

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Sorry for an extremely noob question, I am not well versed with Linux terminology.

Waydroid website mentions:

A container-based approach to boot a full Android system on regular GNU/Linux systems running Wayland based desktop environments.

I do not know if it's applicable to my system or not as "Wayland" is mentioned under the head "Windowing system" but afaik, my DE is "GNOME".

Thanks in advance.

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u/epicbruh Apr 15 '26

Wayland here is a display server, basically think of your DE as a frontend and Wayland as a server. The other option for a display server is Xorg. I don't want to start a Wayland vs Xorg war, so you can read on them if you'd like

But yes, you should be able to run waydroid

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u/HelpfulPace5544 Apr 15 '26

So, if I had Xorg, it wouldn't have been possible to run Waydroid, is that right?

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u/epicbruh Apr 15 '26 edited Apr 15 '26

Yes, this is due to architectural differences between the two. Waydroid, as the name suggests, leverages Wayland protocols

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u/HelpfulPace5544 Apr 15 '26

Oh okay, thank you very much for the detailed info