Waydroid only works in a Wayland session manager In the tutorial video, it specifies running in Wayland but I'm in X11. So before I attempt anything, any tips, experiences etc from y'all would be much appreciated, thanks. as it's pretending to be a phone, would it need a phone number, and would that interfere with WhatsApp on her real phone? Would it be easier for my mum than VM Windows option?)Īre there any other possibilities I haven't mentioned here? Docker? WhatsApp for Android in an Android emulator.a single shortcut to start VM and WhatsApp)? Is there a really lightweight way to do it? And a way I can make it easy for my non-tech-savvy mum to use (e.g. Also I wonder if this old laptop (~2012 HP Pavilion G4, AMD Radeon, 3.4gib RAM) has the power to run a VM at the same time as everything else and still stay "snappy". It's been years since I've used a virtual machine. WhatsApp for Windows in a Windows Virtual Machine.I've seen a few comments saying that this "portable" version is easier to get working in Wine than the official installer, but I've never heard of Portapps.io before today. Portapps version of WhatsApp for Windows in Wine.And that's just the Wine part, before even getting into anything like PlayOnLinux, Lutris, Bottles. A lot of it is over my head, and now every time I search WineHQ to try to understand better, I get a message saying I'm not allowed to search for x seconds. this version of winestaging vs that version of winestaging). wrong type of user account, Wine versions, wine prefixes, winetricks, wine staging) many with multiple variables (e.g. I've seen mention of multiple issues (e.g. It seems this is very tricky to get working (and even trickier to get working voice calls). So that leaves a few options that I'd like to get the forum users tips or experience on. (And 99.9% of what I find on the web about WhatsApp on Linux involves one of those web wrappers.) And therefore anything that's just a wrapper around WhatsApp Web, like all the Linux "desktop clients" WhatsDesk, WhatsApp-for-linux, Ferdi/Franz, Rambox etc cannot do voice calls either.
My mum now needs WhatsApp voice calls on her laptop.