For my purposes, the current biggest problem with Android is that it&#x27;s diverging more and more from desktop Linux; the security model is now sufficiently different that a Debian userland basically won&#x27;t run. (selinux errors when doing anything with apt.)<p>I used pchroot for a while, which was magical --- it fakes a superuser chroot in a normal user account --- but there&#x27;s something about recent Androids it doesn&#x27;t like and it&#x27;s stopped working for me.<p>The switch to a Chromebook was partly because of this. Crouton seems at least semi-blessed, although recent Chromebooks with Freon no longer support running X in a new VT. (You instead pass through X to a Chrome tab.)