3d ago

Hands-on: We ran full desktop Linux apps on an Android phone!

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you mean the thing I do at least once a week already?
Back in my day, being able to pull up a terminal on your phone was major nerd points.
Oh how far we've come. Full steam ahead!
Massively exciting! Can't wait to see what all of these devices can do in the future. They have more than enough power. Let's stop throwing these devices away and repurposing them for amazing things.
Yes this is cool but it's so slow and too much overhead for now. Termux native is faster and more practical even though it's not a full fledged linux, I think.
I ran full desktop linux apps on my laptop!
No, but seriously this is cool.
- Does your laptop fit in your pocket?
  
  Depends... I could fold it a couple more times. But then it wouldn't run anything.
Cool, but I don't think any of these are really new, they're all already possible with Termux/chroot
- There's some differences in how it work, and would need a rooted device on termux though
chromeos will be ditched soon
- I believe read somewhere that google is gonna replace it with android

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