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maelitotoday at 10:27 AM1 replyview on HN

What I understand as "ultimate workstation" would be a smartphone that once connected by usb-C to a monitor, becomes your computer.

Then, you don't need any other device, hence "ultimate".

Convergence, Samsung Dex, lots have tried but nothing mature yet. Well, Dex is mature but closed-source and Samsung-dependent. On the linux no-android smartphone side of things, hardware is too low-cost and the phone aspects of linux too brittle.

Aurora is just a new distro...


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lillecarltoday at 12:14 PM

Android 16 is adding "Desktop Mode" to do exactly this, I bet in a few Android releases this will be good enough for most "desktop usecases". They'll have a "Linux" app that gives you a VM exactly like WSL2 on Windows or Crostini on ChromeOS.

If we allow ourselves to dream it's not impossible we'll be able to run Windows games on Android in some future :)

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