How to install Waydroid on Zorin OS

General Help
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I am trying to run Waydroid.
These are the commands that used to install Waydroid:

sudo apt install curl ca-certificates -y
curl https://repo.waydro.id | sudo bash
sudo apt install waydroid -y
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

Then open Waydroid and choose Vanilla or GAPPS. It does not work with either Vanilla or GAPPS.

To my understanding at the login user screen I have to choose Wayland for Waydroid to work properly. The problem is that the only thing I see is Xorg.

I followed another tutorial where it showed how to enable Wayland in Zorin OS.

dmesg | grep drm
sudo nano /etc/gdm3/custom.conf
#remove comment and change WaylandEnable=false to true
sudo systemctl restart gdm3

That did not work. Wayland is still missing from the login screen.
After that I kept reading. Some suggest that the reason might be that Zorin OS is hiding the option because of the PC hardware.
I have no idea what it means or how it works.

My computer is a PC gaming. Low end graphics, gaming PC nonetheless.

These are the specs:
Belink SER
AMD Ryzen 7 5800H 4.4GHz
RAM 16GB DDR4
I used to use this PC to play AAA games on Windows, Bluestacks, and Google Play PC. I am not a Linux expert. I am just trying to ditch Windows and stay on Linux, or Zorin for that matter.

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Can anyone help me figure out how to resolve this Wayland issue and how to install Waydroid on Zorin OS please?

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The option Zorin Desktop is the wayland option due to Zorin OS defaulting to Wayland.

3

Ha! Look at that! After reading 3 days in a row like a maniac, I never come across with that simple piece of information! Thank you mate! You saved me from insanity lol. Yes, Waydroid is running now. Thank you. Now I have to figure out how to certify this device to run Google Play Story. I am getting the msg "This device isn't Play Protect certified"

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This has to do with how the Play Store authorizes .apk content. I know that there are guides for it, I found one for FydeOS on the first hit of a search.
But we cannot provide certificates, here.

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Ok. No problem. I'll keep looking. Thank you.