chroot is not possible on x10, because /sys/class/graphics is empty!
latest qxcompositor is for 3.2.0.12 and official x10 images are above...

If your kernel has support for it, you can try systemd-nspawn. Nspawn doesn't work with my old Nexus 4, so I can offer little advice.

This might be worth looking over:
https://github.com/stken2050/wayland-desktop-container

I have been playing with chroot on the Pro¹ lately, extremely happy with it. Even my N900 never felt so close to an actual pocketable computer. I typed this post and uploaded images using the Pro¹.

cmus (not affected by SFOS volume, but it has its own volume settings anyway):



cmus and nnn file manager side by side, I really appreciate tiling since SFOS does not allow that:



And an additional tile for another tool:



Some random programs in different terminals in Tilix and the sidebar showing current sessions toggled on:



Neomutt:



Tilix can be run in its own window without xfce4 and other processes in the bacground, as shown here with two tiles with micro and some nice cli-tools (the 0x0 script works in SFOS shell too by the way):



Same, seen from the home screen:



xfce4 multitasking:



In the end I mostly use chroot with xfce4 because the multitasking between terminal and full fledged web browser is great, and Tilix can be toggled to full screen anyway, which looks even better than when run as a standalone SFOS window:

I would like to do it on my Nexus 5 but not sure how to start.
I have tried to setup a chroot but I just messed up my Sailfish and couldn't boot into it anymore. I needed to reinstall it, so I am not so brave to start again now.

Can you recommend a bulletproof or close method to install a chroot then a distro on my Nexus 5, please?

I merely followed elros34's instructions on his sailfish_ubu_chroot Github repository. However, I would be interested in other distributions too (mainly Manjaro), as well as other DEs.

thx, it is working with the newer release on tama!

Can you let me know the url for that, please? Thx

https://github.com/elros34/sailfish_ubu_chroot

Thank you. I will jump into it again on a separate rom, don't want to lose my current one again.

It's been so long i did not use my nexus 5. Last time i checked this chroot could not be rotated and sailfish also could not connect to monitor. Is slimport enabled and working on nexus 5 sailfish os port?

Can we rotate chroot on nexus 5?

I would like to have full desktop linux experience on phone. It's 2020 already and i still have not experienced this. There is other project too postmarket os which runs the newest linux kernel on nexus 5 with alphine linux natively without android drivers, but it also can't connect to monitor using slimport on nexus 5.