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Re: Linux on Dex

#31

Post by camelNotation » Thu, Nov 08, 2018, 8:13 PM UTC

I want a laptop with a hole where the mouse pad should be.

I want to be able to put my phone into that slot, dock it, and use the screen of my phone as the mouse pad for the laptop.

I want my phone to do all the processing and work. I want the laptop dock to be an extension of my phone, running something like DEX to make the laptop experience work. The only thing I want this laptop dock to do is give me a screen, a keyboard, and maybe extra battery and ports.

Please, someone make this happen. I could use my phone for all computing at that point.

Re: Linux on Dex

#32

Post by cylinder714 » Thu, Nov 08, 2018, 8:13 PM UTC

MrMember wrote: post #20

Depending on how well this works it could single handedly convince me to buy a Note 9. I've been wanting something like this for years.

Be sure to look up Purism's Librem 5 phone, coming out next year.

Re: Linux on Dex

#33

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Nov 08, 2018, 8:16 PM UTC

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Re: Linux on Dex

#34

Post by i_phish_cats » Thu, Nov 08, 2018, 8:17 PM UTC

For those of us who don't have a supported device, there's an android app called [Termux](https://termux.com/) which provides a surprisingly linux-y experience. I sometimes code on my 10" tablet with a small (60%) keyboard.

Re: Linux on Dex

#35

Post by solox3 » Thu, Nov 08, 2018, 8:17 PM UTC

camelNotation wrote: post #31

I want a laptop with a hole where the mouse pad should be. I want to be able to put my phone into that slot, dock it, and use the screen of my phone as the mouse pad for the laptop. I want my phone to do all the processing and work. I want the laptop dock to be an extension of my phone, running something like DEX to make the laptop experience work. The only thing I want this laptop dock to do is give me a screen, a k…

Something like Project Linda then? https://www.razer.com/projectlinda

It is still a concept, but Razer's two phones have been the same size, so it remains a possibility.

Re: Linux on Dex

#36

Post by owaislone » Thu, Nov 08, 2018, 8:20 PM UTC

I wish they partnered with Canonical to continue their work on Unity8. Would be great if they could adopt the project and build on top of it.

Re: Linux on Dex

#37

Post by andrey_utkin » Thu, Nov 08, 2018, 8:28 PM UTC

With all the ugliness of Android-first computing, I percieve it as a good thing that major brands are waking up for the public request of native GNU/Linux UX on mobile computing devices.

Re: Linux on Dex

#38

Post by timClicks » Thu, Nov 08, 2018, 8:30 PM UTC

nine_k wrote: post #25

tinyvm wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> oh yeah, I'd hate to be stuck on a Thinkpad or and XPS machine, the 2 best laptops on the market. Even when Excel , Chrome , Gmail take 30-50 seconds to open up ? And your laptop freezes when you are dealing with more than 10000 rows ? That's your opinion i guess.

I won't hope that a phone would handle 10000 rows much better. But that "Excel" thing might be an answer: the laptop must be running Windows, and Windows users often run an antivirus, and some Windows antivirus software is known to be terrible. (The MS-provided basic antivirus was always fine in this regard, though.)

Cortana (well, search indexing) also really hurts performance. They're both disk I/O heavy services and make the whole machine sluggish imo

Re: Linux on Dex

#39

Post by tinyvm » Thu, Nov 08, 2018, 8:38 PM UTC

nine_k wrote: post #25

tinyvm wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> oh yeah, I'd hate to be stuck on a Thinkpad or and XPS machine, the 2 best laptops on the market. Even when Excel , Chrome , Gmail take 30-50 seconds to open up ? And your laptop freezes when you are dealing with more than 10000 rows ? That's your opinion i guess.

I won't hope that a phone would handle 10000 rows much better. But that "Excel" thing might be an answer: the laptop must be running Windows, and Windows users often run an antivirus, and some Windows antivirus software is known to be terrible. (The MS-provided basic antivirus was always fine in this regard, though.)

>I won't hope that a phone would handle 10000 rows much better.

Galaxy S9 has 2 X 4 Core @ 2GHZ , my corporate laptop has an i5 from 2015 with 2 @ 2GHZ.

I'll go with the Galaxy.

Re: Linux on Dex

#40

Post by agency » Thu, Nov 08, 2018, 8:40 PM UTC

tinyvm wrote: post #21

soperj wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

oh yeah, I'd hate to be stuck on a Thinkpad or and XPS machine, the 2 best laptops on the market.

> oh yeah, I'd hate to be stuck on a Thinkpad or and XPS machine, the 2 best laptops on the market. Even when Excel , Chrome , Gmail take 30-50 seconds to open up ? And your laptop freezes when you are dealing with more than 10000 rows ? That's your opinion i guess.

Why would running these things on your phone be faster?