@robryk I have seen pinetab. A few reasons i never got one includes its hard to find one to buy (last I looked), doesnt look nearly as sexy, lacks a stylus or high resolution (resolution is a deal breaker for me), and this new jingOS that can also run android apps and has a nicer tablet-oriented UI is a big selling point potentially.

@freemo

I agree that _if_ the GUI shell they intend to use pans out (and it's not simply Android with Termux) it's a significant thing, in particular if it makes it easy to automatically interact with Android apps. However, I am somewhat doubtful that it does, mostly because doing such a thing well is pretty expensive. You can try emulating Android using something like Anbox, and need to ensure that your emulation is good enough, and possibly have some issues with graphics acceleration; you can try to have your OS be a modified Android, and then you'll most certainly create security issues and will have to make an abomination out of Android to make it seem at least somewhat usable as an end-user Linux distro; last you can just use Android and run Linux userland in an app -- just like Termux. I expect the third thing to have the largest expected usability, and it's something you can get on ~any Android tablet.

@robryk the OS itself has been out for a year now and looks in screen shots to be pretty clean. That said I havent tried it but you or myself or anyone can always just run it in a virtual machine to see if it is as polished as the screenshots looks.

Other OSes claim to have the whole "run android on linux" thing down too. Sailfish does this but its proprietary. I havent personally tested it and I cant say if they did a good job but I do agree with you that getting android to work on linux is probably nontrivial. Supposidly there are other tools on linux that let you run android in any distro but I havent tried those either... either way doing that side well would be impressive for sure.

I can say this, all the solutions I know of that run android on a linux box are usually modified versions of debian and not modified versions of android.