Using an /e/ phone as a desktop or laptop

Re:Using an /e/ phone as a desktop or laptop by mlinksva on Monday December 30, 2019 @03:10PM (#21916257)

> Until now, Nexedi has been maintaining a derivative of ChromiumOS with some extra features: NayuOS. However, the gap between ChromiumOS and its proprietary counterpart ChromeOS has increased so much that we see no possibility to maintain a usable NayuOS in the long terme.

In what ways has the gap between ChromiumOS and ChromeOS increased? Is that true of Chromium and Chrome as well?

> Nexedi has thus decided to support the /e/ foundation and its sister corporation, with the hope that /e/ would some day become a usable OS for desktop or laptop.

Good for them, I think/hope!

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Re:Using an /e/ phone as a desktop or laptop by smetsjp on Monday December 30, 2019 @04:43PM (#21916965)

What you do not get in ChromiumOS (last time I checked):

- support for flash movies

- support of certain video codecs

- support of sound hardware of many recent Chromebook models

- support of CJK input (at least in Guest Mode)

- support of Android apps

- support of Linux virtual machine subsystem

- support of certain Google APIs (but that is OK for me)

Lack of stable support of CJK input in guest mode (and the difficulty to find anyone capable of solving this problem or supporting us) was the biggest issue for me.

Some years ago, the difference was:

- support for flash movies

- support of certain video codecs

- support of certain Google APIs (but that is OK for me)

which was fine to me.

Note: I wrote the article on /e/ for Desktop

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Re:Using an /e/ phone as a desktop or laptop by jdnenej on Monday December 30, 2019 @08:43PM (#21918324)

Flash is long dead and gone. Chrome OS probably also doesnt support floppy disk's.

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Re:Using an /e/ phone as a desktop or laptop by zifnab06 on Monday December 30, 2019 @04:02PM (#21916693)

I have one qualm with /e/: they use LineageOS as their base, add a few apps, and avoid mentioning this to anyone. Most of their repos aren’t special, they’re a 1:1 copy of upstream.

I realize the license allows this but attribution would still be appreciated.

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Re:Using an /e/ phone as a desktop or laptop by kevsim on Monday December 30, 2019 @05:15PM (#21917142)

At least their FAQ says they’ve just forked off LineageOS

https://e.foundation/get-support/#faq

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Re:Using an /e/ phone as a desktop or laptop by zifnab06 on Monday December 30, 2019 @05:21PM (#21917191)

Thanks! I was wrong, look at that :P

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Re:Using an /e/ phone as a desktop or laptop by zamadatix on Monday December 30, 2019 @03:55PM (#21916640)

I haven't worked with ChromeOS/ChromiumOS all that much but Chrome/Chromium aren't very different at all.

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Re:Using an /e/ phone as a desktop or laptop by smetsjp on Monday December 30, 2019 @04:42PM (#21916962)

What you do not get in ChromiumOS (last time I checked): - support for flash movies - support of certain video codecs - support of sound hardware of many recent Chromebook models - support of CJK input (at least in Guest Mode) - support of Android apps - support of Linux virtual machine subsystem - support of certain Google APIs (but that is OK for me)

Lack of stable support of CJK input in guest mode (and the difficulty to find anyone capable of solving this problem or supporting us) was the biggest issue for me.

Some years ago, the difference was: - support for flash movies - support of certain video codecs - support of certain Google APIs (but that is OK for me) which was fine to me.

Note: I wrote the article on /e/ for Desktop

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