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Re: Maru OS – Use your phone as your PC

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Post by WorldPeas »

bigyabai wrote: post #73
happyopossum wrote: post #68

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You and several thousand other people see it that way, meanwhile the billions of other computer users out here don’t.

Those billions need to accept the facts. They're not getting a Windows phone again, and Apple won't likely cannibalize Mac demand with the iPhone. If they want to have their cake and eat it too, they can either run Linux in an Android container, or Android in a Linux container.

then I guess we'll have to wait for companies like huawei with their mate xt, or more likely given friendshoring, the samsung trifold to give people phones that turn into tablets and have a companion keyboard for them to feel this is enough of a threat to address

Re: Maru OS – Use your phone as your PC

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Post by WorldPeas »

altairprime wrote: post #39
mcv wrote: post #29

There's ideas like this every couple of years, and I love the idea, but they never seem to go anywhere. I think Nokia's Maemo/Meego was the first, and it keeps popping up, but it never seems to go anywhere. I understand this one has been dead for a couple of years now too.

Everywhere I might hook up my phone to a monitor there is already either a preexisting computer hooked up, my laptop with its ultra flat keyboard trackpad combo to hook up, and/or lacking the appropriate back support and table height for me for me to ergonomically use a keyboard and mouse there. This might make sense for someone who travels a lot and wants to work in odd places but the assumption that people can Find…

would be cooler if it were something like the razer linda where you dock the phone as a touchpad

Re: Maru OS – Use your phone as your PC

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Post by fragmede »

technocrat8080 wrote: post #97
doebler wrote: post #3

> Simply plug your phone into an HDMI screen, connect up a keyboard and mouse, and you’ve got a lightweight desktop experience you can take anywhere. No, I can't take it anywhere, because few places I go to have a HDMI screen and keyboard ready for me. And to the ones they do, I carry my laptop.

Why can't the phone itself act as the input device? Sure it's not a full-fledged keyboard, but it could work wonderfully in a pinch.

it should at least work as a trackpad.

Re: Maru OS – Use your phone as your PC

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Post by msgodel »

WorldPeas wrote: post #190
msgodel wrote: post #179

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There are a lot of people who are not "goo goo ga ga" level users and really need a device. I've switched to UMPCs because the constant lies and intentional breakage from smartphone vendors drove me up the wall.

glad to see I'm not the only one, if you don't mind me asking, what OS did you settle on? I'm using mint w/ auto-cpufreq on a donki nanote next right now but it's not perfect.

I use Artix on everything these days. It used to Alpine (and before that I was just making my own distros because I didn't like the decisions eg Debian was making.)

Re: Maru OS – Use your phone as your PC

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Post by heisenbit »

bsimpson wrote: post #23

It's interesting that in the early 2010s, both halves of the ecosystem were talking about "convergence:" Ubuntu wanted to make its Linux render a single column on a handset and with floating windows on a larger screen. Motorola had a similar project based on Android. A dozen years later, nobody has done that well. Ubuntu gave up. Mobile-targeted Linux distributions aren't good (missing functionality, mobile UX, or bo…

What is the point of convergence when you can sell two devices to one customer?

Re: Maru OS – Use your phone as your PC

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Post by WorldPeas »

msgodel wrote: post #194
WorldPeas wrote: post #190

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glad to see I'm not the only one, if you don't mind me asking, what OS did you settle on? I'm using mint w/ auto-cpufreq on a donki nanote next right now but it's not perfect.

I use Artix on everything these days. It used to Alpine (and before that I was just making my own distros because I didn't like the decisions eg Debian was making.)

thanks! wasn't even on my radar. mind if I ask the device?

Re: Maru OS – Use your phone as your PC

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Post by fsflover »

p1necone wrote: post #123
LtWorf wrote: post #112

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Try the KDE applications designed for this, like kasts, alligator, qrca and see for yourself. I don't think it can necessarily work for any kind of application, but for some simpler ones I think it's completely fine.

> designed for this This is kind of my point - I'm not saying you can't have applications that are usable across multiple UX paradigms, and I'm also not saying you can't write a UX library that automatically translates at least simple applications with little manual effort. I'm just saying this requires active buy in from application developers into the ecosystem - you can't just run everything on all devices and hav…

> I'm just saying this requires active buy in from application developers into the ecosystem

It's true, but on the other hand, it's much easier to adapt your desktop app to a smaller screen than to rewrite it completely for another OS.

Re: Maru OS – Use your phone as your PC

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Post by Agingcoder »

ForOldHack wrote: post #183
Agingcoder wrote: post #162

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Unless I’m mistaken windows 10 is end of life in 3 months so this shouldn’t be surprising ?

Nope. Win 10 is now a free year of support. All the way to Oct 2026. Thanks for pointing out mistakenly your mistaken. And is it surprising than hardware shills are pointing not pointing this out? You want Linux get a Thinkpad, and a mouse, and plan on replugging every time you wake. "It just works." Well guess what?

Microsoft says it ends in October 2025.

What am I missing here ?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-suppo...

Re: Maru OS – Use your phone as your PC

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Post by Agingcoder »

bytehowl wrote: post #168
Agingcoder wrote: post #165

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Agreed - my view is that Linux on the desktop failed and will never succeed and its mostly alright since people have shifted their computing needs from desktops to phones. So the market for personal computers has grown massively with phones entering it, and Linux has won here. As to the general state of Linux usability - I’ve been using Linux since 1995, and professionally for more than 20 years - it’s great for prof…

Linux may have won on phones, but free software did not, which is the thing that actually matters.

That’s a different issue but you have a point esp since the Linux vs windows fight back then was essentially framed as proprietary vs free.

Re: Maru OS – Use your phone as your PC

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Post by Agingcoder »

anthk wrote: post #164
Agingcoder wrote: post #162

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Unless I’m mistaken windows 10 is end of life in 3 months so this shouldn’t be surprising ?

Barely no one uses Windows 11.

I think about half of all desktop machines , since MS is pushing upgrades aggressively. Many corporate environments ( have already moved as well.

https://gs.statcounter.com/windows-version-market-share/desk...

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