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RemixOS – Android for the desktop

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Re: RemixOS – Android for the desktop

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voltagex_ wrote: post #29
nextos wrote: post #15

As a hardcore Linux user, I'm really torn about Android. On the one hand, it has created a nice software ecosystem by pushing a consistent set of APIs. Linux desktop applications were never remarkable except for a few ones. I think fragmentation into a myriad of frameworks led to this. The only 2 X11 applications I use are firefox and zathura. On the other hand, too much stuff has been redone in Android. It's too for…

Every year I go look where Maemo/Meego/Mer/Tizen (whatever it's been rebranded as) got up to. The N900 remains the greatest phone I ever owned. I had high hopes for Jolla but I doubt they're really out of their financial troubles - they owe me a very expensive tablet, currently. By the time it's delivered it will be obsolete.

It's a shame they didn't opensource, IMHO failing to attract a share of Linux enthusiasts.

They should have worked out a viable business model with an open Sailfish.

Re: RemixOS – Android for the desktop

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Post by cstross »

Ironically, if this was available on the Google Pixel C it'd be a compelling option. (The Pixel C runs Android 6 with no multi-window/multi-app on-screen capability, which somewhat defeats the object of having such a device -- one that with a more comprehensive OS would be a potential Surface competitor. And indeed the Pixel C looks like it was originally designed for ChromeOS.)

Re: RemixOS – Android for the desktop

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Post by bobajeff »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #4

I feel like this is what Android would be today if not for Sundar Pichai killing off Android's laptop project in order to protect Chrome OS. The janky methodology of having Chrome OS run some Android apps is silly, when this could've been Google's path.

"if not for Sundar Pichai killing off Android's laptop project"

This is the first I'm hearing of this. Do you happen to know what the project was called or anything more specific that I might be able to look up?

Re: RemixOS – Android for the desktop

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Post by nextos »

legulere wrote: post #23
nextos wrote: post #15

As a hardcore Linux user, I'm really torn about Android. On the one hand, it has created a nice software ecosystem by pushing a consistent set of APIs. Linux desktop applications were never remarkable except for a few ones. I think fragmentation into a myriad of frameworks led to this. The only 2 X11 applications I use are firefox and zathura. On the other hand, too much stuff has been redone in Android. It's too for…

> I would prefer less app-ification, more package management. I would argue for the opposite: One problem with linux is that you can't run untrusted software without it getting the same access as the user. That's exactly what the appification is. I see package managers as a source of some problems of linux: Package maintainers are a unneeded middleman between the writers of the software and you, package managers inte…

Dependency management and isolation are 2 different things. With Nix I can get either or both (with isolation in the form of lightweight containers).

Re: RemixOS – Android for the desktop

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Post by stasm »

voltagex_ wrote: post #29
nextos wrote: post #15

As a hardcore Linux user, I'm really torn about Android. On the one hand, it has created a nice software ecosystem by pushing a consistent set of APIs. Linux desktop applications were never remarkable except for a few ones. I think fragmentation into a myriad of frameworks led to this. The only 2 X11 applications I use are firefox and zathura. On the other hand, too much stuff has been redone in Android. It's too for…

Every year I go look where Maemo/Meego/Mer/Tizen (whatever it's been rebranded as) got up to. The N900 remains the greatest phone I ever owned. I had high hopes for Jolla but I doubt they're really out of their financial troubles - they owe me a very expensive tablet, currently. By the time it's delivered it will be obsolete.

I'd love to revive my N900. Do you have any recommendations about which OS to install on it these days?
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