No GnuRoot No Nothin

So GnuRoot won't run on my new phone. Ok. Fine. I'll just use some other non-root terminal/Linux emulator... Or maybe not.

Judging by the comments in the play store it seems I'm not the only nerd who is unable to run GnuRoot. I'm not sure what's new in Android, but it seems far more locked down than the version my old phone was running. If so, I guess the OS is still going in the wrong direction. :/

Well there's nothing out there like GnuRoot. Busybox I believe is broken like GnuRoot. In Termux I have VIM available, that's good. But as I was messing with it I couldn't get my VIMRC to apply. Then it got worse, I couldn't open files in my documents directory. I could save files within the Termux file system, but where is that?
I did searchss for files I had stored there but got no results.

Soo Termux and the other emulators are isolated little file systems with no IO. I don't know if Google is rolling their own SUPER locked down Android OS, or if  this is standard in the latest release. But it sucks to get a $$$ phone and have the jerk companies that made it  restrict what you can do with YOUR phone even more.

So I'm stuck. I can't even run proper VIM. When I was able to run GnuRoot I could code, compile and run full on Java jars, I had a ton of apps available through apt-get. It was JUST like having full blown headless Linux on my phone.

Sad.