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Linux on DeX currently supports one customized Ubuntu image (Ubuntu 16.04 LTS version provided by Canonical) which only operates on selected Samsung devices. (Note9 and Tab S4). :(
"Only use authorized images provided directly through Linux on DeX. Other versions or unauthorized images may not operate properly."
Seems to imply, to me, that it is not impossible to run other images in this container.
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>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.
Yet that i5 will be way faster than whatever ARM is in Galaxy. It will also have much faster SSD than the eMMC in phones, and will be paired with faster RAM to boot. All these things take way more energy, so your laptop will also have much bigger battery.
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> 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.
What did they do to that poor computer? On my 3 year old Thinkpad Chrome/Firefox take < 1sec to start and Gmail takes a couple seconds to load. Can't talk Excel as I don't use it.
1. Take a nice shiny new laptop
2. Install Windows onto it.
3. Throw a large bucket of badly written monitoring apps, security apps, encryption apps, in-house apps, and pointless business notification apps.
4. Lock down the OS so the end-user can't remove or stop any of the added chaff.
5. Watch the nice shiny new laptop slow to crawl under the weight of all that crapware.
This is speaking from experience - I have 10+ years of designing and deploying corporate Windows based Desktop/Laptop builds. It all starts fine, until some clueless internal committee decide that they want to install everything and the kitchen sink onto your nicely designed platform...
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> DEX opens a door for next generation Mobile Desktop , where you SmartPhone is also your Desktop Computer. Remember, Microsoft tried this with Continuum for Windows 8/10 and Windows Mobile, it failed. No-one actually wanted the core of their desktop inside their phones. People have partitioned off different use-cases for their PC and smartphones, and the overlap is smaller than designers think.
we still need the pc revolution on mobile devices. we are still in the mainframe/timeshare stage.
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>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.
x86 GHz != ARM GHz
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/11/2018-ipad-pro-review...
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…
Given the variability in phone dimensions, it seems like you'd have to buy a phone specifically designed for your laptop, or vice versa. Attempts have been made before, like the Asus Padfone line, but it never really caught on.[0] [0] https://www.asus.com/Phone/PadFone_S_PF500KL/
I was hoping this would allow me to ssh into my phone to make/take calls and send/receive texts. Does anyone knows if that's possible?
Has anyone tried it? Does it work anyway, but just "unsupported"? Or do you get gated at the registration step?
Will Samsung have access to my data?
Does this have a SaaS cost model?
Will I have root access?
Can I apt-get install any package, or only selected packages?
> Samsung DeX is supported on Galaxy S8/S8+, Note8, S9/S9+, Note9, and Tab S4. > * Phones should be connected to an external display to use Samsung DeX. > * Selected Samsung HDMI adapter/cable is recommended to use Samsung DeX. > * Samsung DeX using a HDMI adapter or cable is only available on Note9 and Tab S4. ------ So really, DeX only works well (with HDMI cable) on Note9 and Tab S4?
Older phones require the Dex Dock or Pad (which adds HDMI and other ports). With the Note9, you can plug a USB-C to HDMI cable right into it.
Does it work if you do that + use Bluetooth peripherals?