Thoughts on Linux on DeX

[the yeetening]

You guys have any thoughts on linux on dex? Is it a perfect copy of ubuntu, or do we lose a lot compared to the real thing?

[Koeshi]

I like the idea behind it but have not seen it in action yet.  I hope to in the future

 

For your second question, it will be a mixed bag.  You are going to get a full Ubuntu desktop, but bare in mind that this is being run in a VM on your phone.  That means that the performance will be significantly lower than it would be on real desktop hardware.  It also means that you are going to be using ARM versions of software, so thing that are specifically compiled against x86 without an ARM version will not be available.  This will be fine for most of desktop Linux, but don't think that you are going to be carrying your Steam library around on your phone, that just isn't going to work.

[the yeetening]

21 hours ago, Koeshi said:

I like the idea behind it but have not seen it in action yet.  I hope to in the future

 

For your second question, it will be a mixed bag.  You are going to get a full Ubuntu desktop, but bare in mind that this is being run in a VM on your phone.  That means that the performance will be significantly lower than it would be on real desktop hardware.  It also means that you are going to be using ARM versions of software, so thing that are specifically compiled against x86 without an ARM version will not be available.  This will be fine for most of desktop Linux, but don't think that you are going to be carrying your Steam library around on your phone, that just isn't going to work.

yea i was thinking of getting a note or s5e to make a super portable c++ development environment. But since it is an ARM processor, it is not the best idea to use the limited version of linux for it.