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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.

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Samsung Won't Support Linux on DeX Once Android 10 Arrives

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  • by HalAtWork ( 926717 ) on Sunday October 20, 2019 @09:18AM (#59327656)

    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.

    • by Brama ( 80257 )

      What? And miss out on the bixby button??

    • 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.

      • by dknj ( 441802 )

        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

        • 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

          • 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.

            • 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.

  • Windows Phone had continuum and there was also the Motorola Atrix which had a Linux desktop option. It looks like if we want a stable version of this then we need to invest in Linux based phone alternatives.
    • 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.

  • by BAReFO0t ( 6240524 ) on Sunday October 20, 2019 @09:24AM (#59327670)

    This won't be a problem there.

  • i wont be buying another Samsung, how much money can i get for a gently used clean and not rooted S9+ unlocked US model G965U so it can not be rooted and re-imaged with lineageOS or anything like that
  • Same idea, but supports any device, running Android 5+ (including Android 10). Also free, as in speech.
  • Is a real Linux smartphone with a real Linux desktop. Nothing to way and no Google blobware on it.

  • I thought this was supposed to be the year of Linux desktop. Oh well.

    • by rtb61 ( 674572 )

      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.

  • 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.

  • As 99.9% of all /. readers are aware Android is a "distro" that runs on Linux so they aren't discontinuing Linux just whatever desktop environment they were shoehorning on their DeX environment. They likely were scaring one of their partners (Google [ChromeOS], Microsoft [Windows], or both) and were admonished against continuing down this path.
  • Literally 3 hours ago was at a discussion where replacing company provided x86 devices with mobile devices was going to be further investigated. Even if we can do that type of thing, we're now pushed a little closer to running VMs from the cloud vs a local OS - bit disappointing. There's still a lot of our apps that are not mobile OS ready, so losing an actual desktop OS makes it harder.
  • There's probably very little demand for this other than a handful of geeks. Probably a sensible move by samshite.
  • Went from a somewhat useful device to just another phone.
    • by Tarlus ( 1000874 )

      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.

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