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Here's the Twitter thread discussing this

Basically, some different apps were linked to the official steamVR app. These apps are hidden, but the data miner was able to grab some assets from them that included some custom art for Waydroid, which is a Linux program that lets you run Android apps on Linux.

Additionally, I've seen comments saying that some valve devs have been making pull requests for the Waydroid github, but I don't actually have a proper source for that.

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[–] Virkkunen@fedia.io 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

But you can do the same with a normal desktop Firefox, none of those things prevent you from switching windows to check things. There must be some other reason why it's run as an Android app.

[–] jack@monero.town 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The android app has native touch support

[–] vpzom@dev.narwhal.city 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

so does the linux version if you enable the environment variable

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

if you enable the environment variable

Simple to do but not very known by people

[–] SqueakyBeaver@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Probably because it's got a better touch interface than desktop

note: I've never tried desktop Firefox in a touchscreen device