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I’ve had this for a year and a half with a PinePhone. I just don’t use the docking ability that much because: 1) Forwarding X11 to a desktop is easier (and all
by pinephoneguy 5y ago
I’ve had this for a year and a half with a PinePhone. I just don’t use the docking ability that much because:
1) Forwarding X11 to a desktop is easier (and all the apps run on X anyway)
2) Since it’s just Linux all the apps can run on a desktop just like the phone, all my stuff is synced with git or rsync, and if there’s something I need outside the usual folders it’s just an scp away. There’s absolutely no reason to use one particular machine over the other other than form factor and computing resources.
It just makes a lot of sense to have a decent desktop permanently plugged in that you can use without any hassle. Devices like that will kill laptops though, I know it did for me. Of course I don’t think this will happen with Android. Google is way too greedy and they’ll find a way to make it unusable.
- sneak 5y agoMy laptop has more than 20x the memory of the PinePhone's maximum, and can run 3x external 4K displays, so the PinePhone would not even remotely approximate laptop-replacement level for me. The hardware in mobile phones needs to improve substantially for the scenario I described to be practical; there's no hardware that supports it today, but the software in TFA is a step in the direction.