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.

5

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

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WTF!!!??? AMD Ryzen 7 is low end to you??? So what about my AMD Ryzen 3 then???

Put that aside, did you succeed in installing the waydroid?

I am new to linux in general, trying mint for a couple of months before coming to zorin. To be honest, I've never installed any android simulator all those time during my time trying to get familiar with linux.

my question is, does your tutorial above still work? you simply need to copy paste all those four commands on zorin terminal without the need to change to xorg right? are there no other commands you need to add whatsoever?