<![CDATA[Playing desktop games on mobilephone]]>I saw some youtube videos of people playing games like classic world of warcraft and such on their mobilephones (with mouse and keyboard). And I started wondering if this could be doable on ubuntu phone.

Firstly I'm not sure if you can install desktop os like ubuntu 20.04 on your mobilephone without runing it ontop of android os? If that is possible, would be really cool! And if not, would it be doable to run desktop os ontop of UT instead and play some nice games, like classic world of warcraft e.g.? Is this something that might happen in the future?

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/topic/6276/playing-desktop-games-on-mobilephoneRSS for NodeFri, 17 Apr 2026 00:11:44 GMTWed, 09 Jun 2021 05:44:27 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Playing desktop games on mobilephone on Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:55:10 GMT]]>@Shadowbird2468
It was proven possible, but, due to different processor architectures, running desktop apps on mobile phone would require emulation layer. And, due to most games were made for windows, it requires running it through x86 Wine. And, due to differences in graphics APIs, it also requires using OpenGL to GLES translation where it is present. In fact some progress has been made at this direction. Several emulators exist for Android (and might work in Waydroid as well), there's at least one application related to that in OpenStore, and there's already Steam distribution for ARM in snap store. Don't know about graphics api translation though.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/94833https://forums.ubports.com/post/94833Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:55:10 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Playing desktop games on mobilephone on Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:10:26 GMT]]>in the mean time you can check out the ppsspp port i did https://forums.ubports.com/topic/12094/app-public-testing-native-port-ppsspp-psp-emulator-beta

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/94829https://forums.ubports.com/post/94829Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:10:26 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Playing desktop games on mobilephone on Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:09:23 GMT]]>hang on today im actually working on the UT port for winulator im almost done and ready for testing

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/94828https://forums.ubports.com/post/94828Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:09:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Playing desktop games on mobilephone on Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:17:33 GMT]]>There is Lutris or Faugus launchers that you can run Battle.net from. Would be interesting if this would work via Libertine.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/94823https://forums.ubports.com/post/94823Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:17:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Playing desktop games on mobilephone on Wed, 09 Jun 2021 21:41:18 GMT]]>@dobey i'll look into stratagus

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/51802https://forums.ubports.com/post/51802Wed, 09 Jun 2021 21:41:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Playing desktop games on mobilephone on Wed, 09 Jun 2021 17:13:19 GMT]]>@emphrath For classic Warcraft/Starcraft games, probably the place to start would be with Stratagus https://github.com/Wargus/Stratagus as it is an SDL2 engine for the original Warcraft.

There are some other games already in the open store, such as OpenTTD, Neverball, and Tux Racer, I think.

]]>https://forums.ubports.com/post/51790https://forums.ubports.com/post/51790Wed, 09 Jun 2021 17:13:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Playing desktop games on mobilephone on Wed, 09 Jun 2021 07:57:43 GMT]]>I think it's quite doable. For warcraft or starcraft, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a linux executable lying around somewhere. I would start there, this way you can try to directly start it in a libertine container. The other route is via wine in libertine which surprisingly can be made to work (with a little sweat it seems). None of these methods are assured to work though. I might try it one day though, I think it's a fun idea ^^

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