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Motorola had something similar too. Forgot the phone model, but it ran a modified version of ubuntu when you put it in a dock.
Wasn't it just running Android in desktop mode?
And they killed it right?
Never even got to a production release. ☹️
I wish there was a way to side load it. Honestly Samsung really has let too many things slide. Ilafter this s23ultra does I'm not getting another Samsung
I got a second hand note10+ just for that feature, only to find out they deprecated Linux on DeX D:
While interesting, that's not really news.
I have been running bash
linux commands on my android device back in 2016 via Termux. it worked perfectly fine back then already, you could apt install
applications and python3
your script.
The problem is with other things. Android is dedicated to being actually usable on touch-screen devices. Installing desktop apps on Android would un-do that effect, so i guess it wouldn't make a lot of sense.
Would be nice to have some alternative for my Note 10+ that is no longer getting updates. Seems it's not popular enough to have an EOL root/custom rom made, so it's just stuck. Seems a waste for a device with decent CPU/GPU and 12gb ram.