{"id":237435,"date":"2026-04-30T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/i-started-using-linux-terminal-on-android-and-now-i-can-do-things-no-app-store-tool-allows\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T10:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T14:05:07","slug":"i-started-using-linux-terminal-on-android-and-now-i-can-do-things-no-app-store-tool-allows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/i-started-using-linux-terminal-on-android-and-now-i-can-do-things-no-app-store-tool-allows\/","title":{"rendered":"I started using Linux terminal on Android and now I can do things no app store tool allows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/linux-terminal-android-can-do-things-no-app-store-allows\/\">I started using Linux terminal on Android and now I can do things no app store tool allows<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/linux-terminal-android-can-do-things-no-app-store-allows\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/linux-terminal-android-can-do-things-no-app-store-allows\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-30 10:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Android apps are, without a doubt, one of the best things to ever happen to smartphones. Each app has a specific function, and thanks to the sheer size of the Google Play Store, you&#8217;ve got tons of options to choose from. However, an app&#8217;s biggest strength\u2014its ability to do one job\u2014can also become a limitation if you&#8217;ve got a complicated task at hand.<\/p>\n<p>Android apps are sandboxed, GUI-first, and built for the median user. I am not the median user. So, considering my Android phone can run a full Linux desktop, I started using the terminal on my Android phone, and it has changed how I think about what a phone can actually do.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tAndroid&#8217;s Linux terminal is so good that I keep finding new reasons not to open my PC<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">I keep reaching for my phone, and it\u2019s not for scrolling.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"two-apps-dominate-linux-on-android\">\n                        Two apps dominate Linux on Android<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"the-terminal-tools-that-make-all-of-this-possible\">\n            The terminal tools that make all of this possible<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>There are two main ways of running a Linux terminal on Android. The first is Termux, a free and open-source&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/linux-terminal-android-can-do-things-no-app-store-allows\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started using Linux terminal on Android and now I can do things no app&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/04\/linux-terminal-on-pixel-9a.JPG?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-237435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237437,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237435\/revisions\/237437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}