This is exactly what I've wanted phones to become for years. It honestly amazes / pisses me off that I can't buy something like this off the shelf. Maybe I'll bite the bullet and piss away a few hours on rom flashing to get /e/ on my phone.
Using an /e/ phone as a desktop or laptop
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Re: Using an /e/ phone as a desktop or laptop
#12I wonder if VirtualBox would run on this. I see that some phones have 6GB RAM, and that should be enough for at least two or three VMs. And many have lots of CPu cores. But maybe I'm missing something.
I wonder if they are thermally capable of sustaining a high CPU load. Phones strike me as fairly bursty in terms of compute usage; I'm curious if running them hot for a long period of time would damage the phone.
Doesn't watching streaming video use considerable CPU?
Re: Using an /e/ phone as a desktop or laptop
#13I wonder if VirtualBox would run on this. I see that some phones have 6GB RAM, and that should be enough for at least two or three VMs. And many have lots of CPu cores. But maybe I'm missing something.
Graphical performance in VMs is subpar, specially on Linux guests.
Re: Using an /e/ phone as a desktop or laptop
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wonder if they are thermally capable of sustaining a high CPU load. Phones strike me as fairly bursty in terms of compute usage; I'm curious if running them hot for a long period of time would damage the phone.
Doesn't watching streaming video use considerable CPU?
Video decoding is usually implemented in hardware, so very efficient.
Re: Using an /e/ phone as a desktop or laptop
#16I wonder if VirtualBox would run on this. I see that some phones have 6GB RAM, and that should be enough for at least two or three VMs. And many have lots of CPu cores. But maybe I'm missing something.
I wonder if they are thermally capable of sustaining a high CPU load. Phones strike me as fairly bursty in terms of compute usage; I'm curious if running them hot for a long period of time would damage the phone.
As VR headsets/adapters have proven, yes, most phones will overheat with continuous usage.
Re: Using an /e/ phone as a desktop or laptop
#17Re: Using an /e/ phone as a desktop or laptop
#18I wonder if VirtualBox would run on this. I see that some phones have 6GB RAM, and that should be enough for at least two or three VMs. And many have lots of CPu cores. But maybe I'm missing something.
Graphical performance in VMs is subpar, specially on Linux guests.
I don't care much about that.
I want router VMs for chaining VPNs. And for Whonix.
Re: Using an /e/ phone as a desktop or laptop
#19> Until now, Nexedi has been maintaining a derivative of ChromiumOS with some extra features: NayuOS. However, the gap between ChromiumOS and its proprietary counterpart ChromeOS has increased so much that we see no possibility to maintain a usable NayuOS in the long terme. In what ways has the gap between ChromiumOS and ChromeOS increased? Is that true of Chromium and Chrome as well? > Nexedi has thus decided to sup…
What you do not get in ChromiumOS (last time I checked):
- support for flash movies
- support of certain video codecs
- support of sound hardware of many recent Chromebook models
- support of CJK input (at least in Guest Mode)
- support of Android apps
- support of Linux virtual machine subsystem
- support of certain Google APIs (but that is OK for me)
Lack of stable support of CJK input in guest mode (and the difficulty to find anyone capable of solving this problem or supporting us) was the biggest issue for me.
Some years ago, the difference was: - support for flash movies - support of certain video codecs - support of certain Google APIs (but that is OK for me) which was fine to me.
Note: I wrote the article on /e/ for Desktop
Re: Using an /e/ phone as a desktop or laptop
#20> Until now, Nexedi has been maintaining a derivative of ChromiumOS with some extra features: NayuOS. However, the gap between ChromiumOS and its proprietary counterpart ChromeOS has increased so much that we see no possibility to maintain a usable NayuOS in the long terme. In what ways has the gap between ChromiumOS and ChromeOS increased? Is that true of Chromium and Chrome as well? > Nexedi has thus decided to sup…
What you do not get in ChromiumOS (last time I checked):
- support for flash movies
- support of certain video codecs
- support of sound hardware of many recent Chromebook models
- support of CJK input (at least in Guest Mode)
- support of Android apps
- support of Linux virtual machine subsystem
- support of certain Google APIs (but that is OK for me)
Lack of stable support of CJK input in guest mode (and the difficulty to find anyone capable of solving this problem or supporting us) was the biggest issue for me.
Some years ago, the difference was:
- support for flash movies
- support of certain video codecs
- support of certain Google APIs (but that is OK for me)
which was fine to me.
Note: I wrote the article on /e/ for Desktop