Ive never really understood the appeal of desktop modes like this or Dex, like, whenever i am somewhere with a keyboard, a mouse, a monitor with some cables, the likelyhood of there already being a fully working computer are very high, and the chances that the computer works better at what I want to achieve are much higher than my dinky phone with phone apps on it
I use it a lot, I keep a little dock with me and a small bluetooth mouse and keyboard, when I’m typing on the go, I can just plug in when I come home and everything is there.
exact same thing with my emulators. I can also chroot into arch and get a full blown desktop environment if needed
I think the vision was what Motorola delivered briefly a decade ago with webtop. The original version of it was a chrooted lubuntu with full access to apt, and custom applications that let you render your phone, or phone apps as an application. It was powerful enough to get me through my first 3 years of a computer science program in college with a lapdock as my primary “computer”. (Think a brainless laptop, that you dock your phone into)
When they moved from android 2.3 to 4.0, they dropped the lubuntu webtop in favor of Android’s tablet mode, which was a huge bummer, and what made me get an actual laptop. Outside of gaming, if that were the average computer paradigm today I’d be a happy camper. Why buy two computers when you can buy one instead?
I’m honestly surprised this feature is still around. Don’t get me wrong, I love that it’s available when I get the chance to use it, but it’s so rarely, I question whether the development effort necessary to keep it going is really worth it.
Edit: completely forgot the value Dex has for Samsung tablets. Happy that they make this feature available on phones too.
because they are powerful. Maybe your phone is slow. My phone can run games at 144fps and does not need to have active cooler, but PC runs at 60C and needs active cooling for a simple YouTube video
Ive never really understood the appeal of desktop modes like this or Dex, like, whenever i am somewhere with a keyboard, a mouse, a monitor with some cables, the likelyhood of there already being a fully working computer are very high, and the chances that the computer works better at what I want to achieve are much higher than my dinky phone with phone apps on it
Because this pocket computer is your enclave, with your data, and settings. You don’t have to login to someone else’s computer.
Fair point
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I use it a lot, I keep a little dock with me and a small bluetooth mouse and keyboard, when I’m typing on the go, I can just plug in when I come home and everything is there.
exact same thing with my emulators. I can also chroot into arch and get a full blown desktop environment if needed
I think the vision was what Motorola delivered briefly a decade ago with webtop. The original version of it was a chrooted lubuntu with full access to apt, and custom applications that let you render your phone, or phone apps as an application. It was powerful enough to get me through my first 3 years of a computer science program in college with a lapdock as my primary “computer”. (Think a brainless laptop, that you dock your phone into)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2011/03/motorola-atrix-the-ubuntu-powered-webtop-experience/
When they moved from android 2.3 to 4.0, they dropped the lubuntu webtop in favor of Android’s tablet mode, which was a huge bummer, and what made me get an actual laptop. Outside of gaming, if that were the average computer paradigm today I’d be a happy camper. Why buy two computers when you can buy one instead?
I’m honestly surprised this feature is still around. Don’t get me wrong, I love that it’s available when I get the chance to use it, but it’s so rarely, I question whether the development effort necessary to keep it going is really worth it.
Edit: completely forgot the value Dex has for Samsung tablets. Happy that they make this feature available on phones too.
because they are powerful. Maybe your phone is slow. My phone can run games at 144fps and does not need to have active cooler, but PC runs at 60C and needs active cooling for a simple YouTube video