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> Smartphones are essentially solved at this point. How about running a normal desktop OS on smartphone, so that you could completely replace your laptop/deskt
by fsflover 2y ago
> Smartphones are essentially solved at this point.
How about running a normal desktop OS on smartphone, so that you could completely replace your laptop/desktop?
- benterix 2y agoThis makes a lot of sense for tablets - but Apple decided they won't allow it in order not to cannibalize sales. For phones, the value is arguably smaller, at least for people like me who hate doing anything remotely complex on a tiny screen.
- fsflover 2y agoThere is no reason to do anything complex on a tiny screen. The phone can stay a phone, except when you connect a keyboard and screen to it.
- iknowstuff 2y agoNobody actually does that, turns out. Several manufacturers have the feature and it goes unused.
- fsflover 2y agoThey do it wrong: Nobody needs to expand mobile apps to a large screen. There is only one company which does it right: Shrink desktop apps to mobile: https://puri.sm/posts/converging-on-convergence-pureos-is-convergent-welcome-to-the-future/ https://puri.sm/posts/converging-on-convergence-pureos-is-co...
- iknowstuff 2y agoTotal pipe dream. I like GNOME’s design but gtk and its desktop apps at large will never be appealing to mobile users, so I wholeheartedly disagree with you.
- fsflover 2y agoI already use a desktop Firefox and LibreOffice on my Librem 5. It's relatively slow but works sufficiently well with NoScript and text. See also: https://puri.sm/posts/my-first-year-of-librem-5-convergence/ https://puri.sm/posts/my-first-year-of-librem-5-convergence/