Comment by drnick1

Waydroid runs Lineage, so it's certainly possible, but I don't know how easy it is on something like QEMU.

That being said buying a phone compatible with Lineage or Graphene (only Pixels for the latter) is well worth it. This will probably become even more important in the future if Google bans sideloading or complies with idiotic laws such client-side scanning of messages in some markets.