Samsung Won't Support Linux on DeX Once Android 10 Arrives (engadget.com) 39
An anonymous reader quotes Engadget:
If you've been using Linux on DeX (aka Linux on Galaxy) to turn your Samsung phone into a PC, you'll need to make a change of plans. Samsung is warning users that it's shutting down the Linux on DeX beta program, and that its Android 10 update won't support using the open source OS as a desktop environment. The company didn't explain why it was shutting things down, but it did note that the Android 10 beta is already going without the Linux option...
Samsung is still committed to DeX, and recently enabled its desktop-style space on Macs and Windows PCs. However, it's clear that the dreams of fully replacing a PC with your Galaxy phone will have to wait, at least for now.
Samsung is still committed to DeX, and recently enabled its desktop-style space on Macs and Windows PCs. However, it's clear that the dreams of fully replacing a PC with your Galaxy phone will have to wait, at least for now.
You're using computers wrong (Score:4, Insightful)
Try doing stuff that doesn't require the internet. It brings much more satisfaction. A PC isn't a glorified QVC catalog.
Try programming the types of things you would like to interact with on a PC.
Try learning Blender or Inkscape or Rosegarden and creating some art.
Try using a word processor and writing a book.
Try some adventure games or puzzle games or role playing games.
Or if you're really focused on that consumer stuff and all you care about, launch your own site designed your way. Surely your ideas are so good that everyone will want to use it and you'll be a success.
Yeah, and where do I look up stuff? (Score:2)
Like documentstation? Or engineering videos? Or porn?
A PC, and indeed any actual computer, is an *universal* information processing machine. Excluding those things is just as retarded as using it as a glorified gossip rag.
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Software comes with documentation.
A lot of GUI software doesn't, instead opening the web documentation when the user presses the F1 key for help. And even if it does, its search tends to be inadequate compared to what one can get through DuckDuckGo or Google Search. An offline version of Stack Overflow would be just as legal as Wikipedia, but does it exist?
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Then the web docs might not reflect the version you chose to install.
Unless the opened URL is of the form https://docs.example.org/3.1/, which I've seen done for at least Python.
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Try learning Blender or Inkscape or Rosegarden and creating some art.
With DeX gone, how would the owner of a docked Galaxy mobile computer use these applications? Buy an Intel or AMD PC and use that instead?
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Of course you no longer feel any joy in using computers because all you do is post that depressing text once in a while.
Stop using social media and you'll feel okay again pretty soon.
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So you no longer get any positive emotional reward from using computers, and you've provided a long, detailed list of examples and complaints. Why do you continue to torture yoursellf? And if you value privacy so much, why are you looking up people on Whitepages?
By the way, the possibility that "there are quite a few lurkers out there who will agree wholeheartedly" doesn't mean much. There are quite a few lurkers out there who believe Elvis is still alive.
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The fraudsters at Stripe made me waste countless months learning and implementing their massive API only to one day, out of the blue as I was asking them a technical question, told me something along the lines of: "Unfortunately, we won't be able to provide services for you going forward." Naturally, I asked them what they meant, but (as always is the case with these companies) they just did not reply at all. My only guess is that it had something to do with me also allowing Bitcoin payments for the service I was building, and this was considered a "risk" to them, or something.
1. No one made you learn Stripe's API. That attitude clearly shows your general world-view (one of rampant and unchecked Entitlement).
2. In my dealings with Stripe, I have found them courteous, knowledgable (and honest when they have to ask someone else), and always-available, while I was setting up a payment-processing feature for my employer's software-publishing business that was forced into a "subscription model" (with no attending infrastructure support) by Microsoft... Between their excellent, interac
I feel better about ordering the Librem 5 every da (Score:5, Insightful)
Nobody will be able to take away features, install crap I don't want, or prevent me from controlling the software I have installed or customizing things how I like.
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What? And miss out on the bixby button??
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Nobody will be able to take away features, install crap I don't want, or prevent me from controlling the software I have installed or customizing things how I like.
Nobody is doing that here, either. You can stick with the current version if you want.
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You can stick with the current version if you want.
And you have never tried doing what you are suggesting. I have a Samsung (and you can replace Samsung with Android in general and its the same problem) phone that I decided to hibernate for awhile. Upon turning it back on the phone I was nagged with update alerts. To the point where certain background apps that started on boot would not start because the update alert was blocking something. Samsung is not immune, my Motorola phone does the same thing.
Google does not want to be responsible for a mass worm a
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I for one don't screw with phones with unlockable bootloaders, so I can run LineageOS if I want. If I don't like the way Motorola manages updates for my phone, I can jump off their track. I actually want to upgrade to 10, but they aren't offering me an upgrade to 10 yet even though I have an Android One device. They claim they'll be evaluating the software later this year... why haven't they been evaluating it as it's been in beta? I'm concerned that they're going to delay until the phones are out of their
Re: I feel better about ordering the Librem 5 ever (Score:2)
I get what you are saying, I really do. But this comment flies in the face of your initial comment, here let me remind you:
You can stick with the current version if you want.
Please tell me how running a different Fucking operating system is sticking with the current version of software that exists on your phone. If you meant LineageOS from the start, then your post doesnâ(TM)t apply to even a fraction of the Linux on Dex users.
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Please tell me how running a different Fucking operating system is sticking with the current version of software that exists on your phone.
It isn't. I was talking about one thing, then someone made an objection, then I talked about another thing. I'm sorry that you're having trouble following the conversation, and suggest that you see someone as it might be a sign of untreated ADHD.
This keeps getting tried (Score:2)
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If you can root you can use linux deploy or similar to get Linux on your phone. But you still need an X server. There are several, of course, but I don't think any of them support OpenGL.
Just get an F(x)tec. (Score:3)
This won't be a problem there.
WSL (Score:2)
If Microsoft doesn't want people using GNU/Linux as a secondary operating system on devices, then why does its Windows 10 operating system provide a container for GNU/Linux called WSL?
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thats the final nail in the coffin (Score:2)
You can still use UserLAnd (Score:1)
Re: You can still use UserLAnd (Score:1)
Librem 5 from purism (Score:3)
Is a real Linux smartphone with a real Linux desktop. Nothing to way and no Google blobware on it.
This ends the year of Linux Desktop (Score:2)
I thought this was supposed to be the year of Linux desktop. Oh well.
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So it is hardly surprising the Google went out and corruptly made Samsung a deal they could not refuse to kill something Google had little control of Linux. Google has become M$ and make no mistake and in reality much worse than M$. I also will never be buying a Samsung device and probably will Huawei and Linux.
DeX is quite neat. (Score:2)
It's convergence alright and it works pretty good for regular computer office work. Samsung seeing to it that this isn't just a one time thing is good. I also totally get that the see no reason to support Linux any further.
Samsung is confused (Score:2)
no longer a PC replacement (Score:2)
Niche (Score:2)
Whelp (Score:2)
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Really, though? Is it really all that useful? I set it up, tried it out, thought it was kind of cool, and never used it again. I can't really figure out what its uses/niche are supposed to be beyond the novelty of it.
Mostly I just use my phone as a phone and my computer as a computer.