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Re:Samsung DeX by kayoone on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @01:21AM (#15746047)
The time is not right yet, but mobile hardware gets faster a rapid pace and the upcoming Linux on Galaxy [1] might change things to be more useful.

[1] https://seap.samsung.com/linux-on-galaxy

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Re:Samsung DeX by Fnoord on Tuesday November 21, 2017 @10:19AM (#15748396)
Oh, I assumed DeX was Samsung's Linux on Galaxy project. What's under the hood with both? What kind of OS is DeX? What kind of DE would Linux on Galaxy run?
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Re:Samsung DeX by bergie on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @06:59AM (#15756123)
DeX is a dock that tells your phone to go to "desktop mode". It is still Android.

With "Linux on Galaxy" I guess you'd be running whatever DE you like. Unless they've done it differently and you're in DeX desktop but can run full Linux apps there. Not sure.

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