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Well, I wrote some Ruby on Rails code on my Samsung tablet some years ago. I mean, I was running the editor and Rails on the tablet, inside Dex for Linux which
by pmontra 3y ago
Well, I wrote some Ruby on Rails code on my Samsung tablet some years ago. I mean, I was running the editor and Rails on the tablet, inside Dex for Linux which is an Ubuntu 16.04 container (LXC?) sharing the kernel with Android. Samsung and Canonical worked together to port X11 to the tablet so I had a Unity desktop. I remember it came with VSCode preinstalled inside the container.
It was a little slow but probably not much slower than my laptop back in 2005 when I started coding in Rails, if it was any slower at all.
- krimpenrik 3y agoI was yesterday researching options to use my tablet for upcoming extended trip and found that the Linux stuff Samsung had is sunsetted and couldn't find any alternative. Think I'll just bring a 13inch laptop.
- pmontra 3y agoYes, Samsung killed Dex for Linux with the update to the next major Android version. I think they decided that the sales it added to their bottom line were not worth the maintenance cost. Too bad, because a local and almost real Linux environment is great.