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I think Canonical pitched this about 10 years ago.

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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.

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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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Dex could have been the dream. That wm, it’s soo bad. Then the apps have too much control over their resize and only one instance of an app running.

I could have daily driven it if it was just a little more consistent

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Yeah, but to be fair it seems more feasible now. Maybe one day!

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