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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I think Canonical pitched this about 10 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

10 years ago was the time to start, too.

Imagine a Linux-like OS for mobile as a reasonable 3rd mobile operating system. People would run it and seem weird like when people run Linux on their laptop nowadays. 1-2% market share. Basically nothing is native to it but a handful of open source apps, but waydroid would be more complete. That would be beautiful.

Shoot. Imagine a reasonably new phone running something Linux with a shell laptop that lets you properly converge. Linux has the best ARM support because basically anything can be complied.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That's what Samsung tried with Dex. You could even run an honest to god (emulated) Linux on it. Unfortunately, it didn't work out and no one knows about it today.

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