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> I'm super impressed with the state of "convergence" here. Convergence is great for productivity. Ubuntu Touch's main USP was that and I was even able to get

> I'm super impressed with the state of "convergence" here. Convergence is great for productivity. Ubuntu Touch's main USP was that and I was even able to get it working in UBPorts on my nexus4[1]. It's a shame that convergence is still a hit or miss on android ecosystem, At this point of smartphone compute hardware & USB-C standardization we should be able to plug any smartphone to a monitor. At least Linux smartphone ecosystem is betting high on that. [1] https://twitter.com/heavyinfo/status/1251048583190609920?s=20 https://twitter.com/heavyinfo/status/1251048583190609920?s=2...

DennisAleynikov 6y ago
it is quite ridiculous. as a passionate Samsung DeX defender at first, I dove right into that ecosystem when the s8 came out and am now at a point where my s10 is never getting a software update BECAUSE ANDROID BROKE THE API FOR SAMSUNGS WSL. Termux was a victim too to a much lesser degree but Samsung had literally had Linux on Dex beta and I was absolutely free to just have my phone. It was incredible going to school, sitting down at a random monitor and just having all of my vscode files and blender assets follow me around
- Abishek_Muthian 6y ago
  What a shame, I thought at least Samsung have their DeX albeit with special hardware. So no more DeX? I presume some new Android phones at least support mirroring through USB-C.
  - Jonnax 6y ago
    No DeX still exists. What Samsung had was a a beta of running a Linux distro in a kind of isolated container on Android. This also let you boot into Ubuntu 16.04 with external display and use things like VS Code. Google changed something in their APIs preventing the beta from continuing on newer versions of android.
    - Abishek_Muthian 6y ago
      Perhaps because they removed exec() from userspace for apps targeting API 29 in Playstore. I don't buy Samsung devices as they indulge in discriminatory behaviour in my country (Pre burned excessive data hoarding bloat apps).

DennisAleynikov 6y ago

it is quite ridiculous. as a passionate Samsung DeX defender at first, I dove right into that ecosystem when the s8 came out and am now at a point where my s10 is never getting a software update BECAUSE ANDROID BROKE THE API FOR SAMSUNGS WSL. Termux was a victim too to a much lesser degree but Samsung had literally had Linux on Dex beta and I was absolutely free to just have my phone. It was incredible going to school, sitting down at a random monitor and just having all of my vscode files and blender assets follow me around

Abishek_Muthian 6y ago
What a shame, I thought at least Samsung have their DeX albeit with special hardware. So no more DeX? I presume some new Android phones at least support mirroring through USB-C.
- Jonnax 6y ago
  No DeX still exists. What Samsung had was a a beta of running a Linux distro in a kind of isolated container on Android. This also let you boot into Ubuntu 16.04 with external display and use things like VS Code. Google changed something in their APIs preventing the beta from continuing on newer versions of android.
  - Abishek_Muthian 6y ago
    Perhaps because they removed exec() from userspace for apps targeting API 29 in Playstore. I don't buy Samsung devices as they indulge in discriminatory behaviour in my country (Pre burned excessive data hoarding bloat apps).