ubuntu on android Ubuntu on Android

[Budjet Tech]

I really want to install ubuntu on my android phone, but not an emulation I want to install  Ubuntu as my primary os. If anyone knows how pleas tell me. If it needs root access, boot from USB/sd card, anything.

Thanks

[Ashleyyyy]

may i ask why?

[Budjet Tech]

1 minute ago, firelighter487 said:

may i ask why?

I want to be able to run a full desktop from my pocket.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Just now, Budjet Tech said:

I want to be able to run a full desktop from my pocket.

the problem is the interface on desktop oses are very bad on small touch screens.

[Budjet Tech]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

the problem is the interface on desktop oses are very bad on small touch screens.

I was going to use a small Bluetooth keyboard and mouse

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Budjet Tech said:

I was going to use a small Bluetooth keyboard and mouse

why not get a small laptop then?

[Ashleyyyy]

5 minutes ago, Budjet Tech said:

I want to be able to run a full desktop from my pocket.

 

[Ashleyyyy]

that's quite expensive though.. 

[Voylinslife]

46 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

that's quite expensive though.. 

Said the person with 2 xeon's, 250GB ssd,, 30GB ram pc

Personally I don't think it's a smart idea to put it on a phone as you said yourself, you will have to carry a mouse and keyboard anyway so the product you suggest is the best option after all

[Ashleyyyy]

1 hour ago, Voylinslife said:

Said the person with 2 xeon's, 250GB ssd,, 30GB ram pc

almost everything except ssd, hyper 212 and gpu in my pc is used...

here's what i paid:

2 xeon's: €100

250gb ssd: €130

24gb ram: €85

gtx 1050: €170

chassis+mobo+PSU+6GB  ram+ 1 cooler combo: €75

hdd's: €50

hyper 212 evo: €40

total: €650

 

only €233 more than that mini laptop...

https://www.gearbest.com/tablet-pcs/pp_613003.html?vip=4267139&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIu-LWq4zC2wIViZEbCh10sAtWEAAYAiAAEgLKL_D_BwE

 

EDIT: the cost of my pc is without factoring in Windows. if you factor Windows 10 pro into it it's €909, and €492 more than the laptop. 

https://www.microsoft.com/nl-nl/p/windows-10-pro/df77x4d43rkt/48DN

[Voylinslife]

7 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

total: €650

 

only €233 more than that mini laptop...

https://www.gearbest.com/tablet-pcs/pp_613003.html?vip=4267139&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIu-LWq4zC2wIViZEbCh10sAtWEAAYAiAAEgLKL_D_BwE

 

EDIT: the cost of my pc is without factoring in Windows. if you factor Windows 10 pro into it it's €909, and €492 more than the laptop. 

https://www.microsoft.com/nl-nl/p/windows-10-pro/df77x4d43rkt/48DN

 

How were you able to get everything so cheap? xo I got a laptop of 600 Euro which isn't even a true Quad core with only 6GB of DDR4 Ram ^^"

May I ask why you are running Fedora on your laptop instead of windows? I just noticed that

[Ashleyyyy]

1 minute ago, Voylinslife said:

How were you able to get everything so cheap? xo I got a laptop of 600 Euro which isn't even a true Quad core with only 6GB of DDR4 Ram ^^"

almost everything is used parts, and you are forgetting my cpu's are from 2010, so.. quite old. 

 

2 minutes ago, Voylinslife said:

May I ask why you are running Fedora on your laptop instead of windows? I just noticed that

because i HATE Windows 10. in an ideal world i wouldn't use Windows at all, but i play a lot of games that won't run on Linux so.. on my laptop which only has intel graphics anyway i don't need Windows, so i don't use it. 

[Voylinslife]

1 minute ago, firelighter487 said:

because i HATE Windows 10. in an ideal world i wouldn't use Windows at all, but i play a lot of games that won't run on Linux so.. on my laptop which only has intel graphics anyway i don't need Windows, so i don't use it. 

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Well I'm joining the club! I am starting to hate windows 10 with a passion as well. I don't play many games but I need Adobe premiere sadly enough tomorrow my mission is to clean my whole pc, format my ssd and install a clean windows and the other half of my SSD goes to Linux. After looking around I am still thinking between Ubuntu and Mint. I'm wondering why you have chosen Fedore of all distro's.  (I've been using linux distro's for some time now)

[Ashleyyyy]

2 minutes ago, Voylinslife said:

Well I'm joining the club! I am starting to hate windows 10 with a passion as well. I don't play many games but I need Adobe premiere sadly enough tomorrow my mission is to clean my whole pc, format my ssd and install a clean windows and the other half of my SSD goes to Linux. After looking around I am still thinking between Ubuntu and Mint. I'm wondering why you have chosen Fedore of all distro's.  (I've been using linux distro's for some time now)

i chose Fedora because i wanted to learn it, and because i think Ubuntu 18.04 is a little unstable still. 

 

if you don't know much about Linux, i would go with Mint. i've had good luck with that in the past, although it's a little too simple for me.

and yeah i've been thinking of dual-booting my machine as well, but i don't have the SSD space for it. i might buy another SSD just to do it though.. 

[Budjet Tech]

thanks for the idea, I didn't think about that @Voylinslife @firelighter487  @Electronics Wizardy

 

[geo3]

If you replace the Android OS with Ubuntu then it's no longer Android.

[Epictek300]

There are a lot of options:

 

 

Linux Deploy: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.meefik.linuxdeploy&hl=en

 

Termux has the best intergration with Android but you will need to install a third party repo https://xeffyr.github.io/termux-x-repository/ or install a distro such as ubuntu in a proot https://github.com/Neo-Oli/termux-ubuntu

 

There is also GNU Root https://www.xda-developers.com/guide-installing-and-running-a-gnulinux-environment-on-any-android-device/

 

 

You probably want to use this alongside them: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=x.org.server

[EPENEX]

Buy a Librem 5?

 

https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/

[Linus_torvalds]

On 6/7/2018 at 7:45 PM, Budjet Tech said:

I really want to install ubuntu on my android phone, but not an emulation I want to install  Ubuntu as my primary os. If anyone knows how pleas tell me. If it needs root access, boot from USB/sd card, anything.

Thanks

buy nexus 4. You can install ubuntu touch on it and when connected to monitor with it's slimport ubuntu desktop interface shows on monitor and the phone becomes touchpad and keyboard you can use wireless mouse and keyboard and have full desktop experience with it.

Or you can install Sailfish OS (Just another linux distro) on nexus 4 and run arch linux or manjaro or ubuntu arm version in chroot environment. It will be fast and it will work even better then ubuntu chroot, but sadly you loose desktop setup because slimport does not work on sailfish os.

 

Ubuntu touch + Nexus 4 is the way to go for you

maybe it will work on nexus 5 too. I have ordered slimport and i can check it after 2-3 weeks.

 

2:19

 

[Sam13211]

well you could use an arm port of arch linux or lubuntu or fedora arm. The real question is your personal tastes and your phones specs.