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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

What's the point into doing it?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (3 children)

At the minimum, to show that Android is not a locked down walled-garden of a system and you're free to choose what you can do with it to the point you can install a different OS on it?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I believe it's more a problem about SoC manufacturers than a problem of android by itself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

You can already just install UbuntuTouch

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

He probably meant to say Open Source operating system.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Something like samsung Dex on regular android?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

oh, if that means i can use native linux apps on there like on regular chromeos, that would be so cool

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Yeah that'd be a fun 8 months until they kill it

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

You can already run Linux apps using Termux and Termux-X11, and I'd say the performance would be better than this demo, because this is running in a virtual machine and uses it's own kernel, whereas with Termux you're running your apps directly on top of the Android Linux kernel. Also, you don't have the overhead of running ChromeOS on top of Android.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I didn't know about termux x11, I will check it out thanks!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Look into termux, proot, proot-distro and termux-x11

You have more limited performance in proot but it can run some basic programms

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Cool, but why? Doesn't really makes sense to run a desktop os in a vm on a touch device that doesn't even support external screens via USB C

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hmm, but the new pixel 8 series do support display output over USB type-C after the March update.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Finally, it only took them 8 years to reach feature parity with Samsung