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Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone

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Re: Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone

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Post by xrisk »

cwyers wrote: post #17
xrisk wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s an OS for your phone that becomes a proper desktop OS if you plug in a monitor, mouse, keyboard etc. I don’t think this has been done before, or maybe I’m just hopelessly unaware? Either way, I think it’s quite interesting.

Motorola Atrix, Ubuntu Phone, Windows Phone 10 has Continuum. It's been tried before.

I stand corrected then.

Re: Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone

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Post by strozykowski »

slobotron wrote: post #9
LeoNatan25 wrote: post #2

“Maru is a new kind of computing experience.” Is it? This type of “All Your PC Are Belong To Phone” type of fads have been attempted (and so far, miserably failed) for many, many years now. Looking at the website, I see little reason why this should succeed where others have failed.

Motorola webtop on Atrix was too early - phones were just too slow for even basic browsing in Firefox in laptop mode. Perhaps Maru is smooth enough on new hardware? (Still have the lapdock lying around, now hooked into RPi.)

In your experience, how well does the lapdock run with an RPi? I have a lapdock lying around, and never thought of this for some reason.

Re: Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone

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Post by ruleabidinguser »

cwyers wrote: post #17
xrisk wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s an OS for your phone that becomes a proper desktop OS if you plug in a monitor, mouse, keyboard etc. I don’t think this has been done before, or maybe I’m just hopelessly unaware? Either way, I think it’s quite interesting.

Motorola Atrix, Ubuntu Phone, Windows Phone 10 has Continuum. It's been tried before.

I don't think this makes sense until phones are basically as fast as current laptops.

Re: Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone

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Post by disconnected »

cwyers wrote: post #17
xrisk wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s an OS for your phone that becomes a proper desktop OS if you plug in a monitor, mouse, keyboard etc. I don’t think this has been done before, or maybe I’m just hopelessly unaware? Either way, I think it’s quite interesting.

Motorola Atrix, Ubuntu Phone, Windows Phone 10 has Continuum. It's been tried before.

And now, also Samsung DeX, but that one requires a Galaxy S8 and a special dock.

Re: Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone

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Post by moojah »

janwillemb wrote: post #23

I think this may be the future of computing, but not yet. A high-end phone may have the computing power to replace simple desktop systems, but connectors to the peripherals haven't been standardized yet.

With USB-C this shouldn't be a problem whatsoever. In fact, the peripherals largely already exist. Given the driver support, these should just work "out of the box" with an up-to-date linux kernel.

Re: Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone

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Post by cwyers »

If you have a monitor, mouse, and keyboard, you may was well have a computer. Seriously, if you have a laptop-like enclosure for all those things to make them portable, adding a SoC to make it a PC is what, $20-$40 to be on par with this in terms of compute? And last I checked, it's still not The Year Of The Linux Desktop. This is gonna crash and burn.

Re: Maru OS – A complete desktop experience on a smartphone

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Post by barce »

cwyers wrote: post #17
xrisk wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s an OS for your phone that becomes a proper desktop OS if you plug in a monitor, mouse, keyboard etc. I don’t think this has been done before, or maybe I’m just hopelessly unaware? Either way, I think it’s quite interesting.

Motorola Atrix, Ubuntu Phone, Windows Phone 10 has Continuum. It's been tried before.

Yeah, but these would never work with VR. The moment phones became capable of delivering smooth VR, i.e. smooth graphics, the phone PC became a strong possibility for quotidian tasks.
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