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Re:Do you really want Linux phones by pogo99 on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @10:07PM (#26575786)
It allows me to run any linux desktop program, which includes programs that can be run with wine, anbox or even a virtual machine. If it's fast enough i wouldn't need a PC at all.

So I would say that is the long term goal: convergence. Linux has a major advantage over other operating systems in this regard.

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Re:Do you really want Linux phones by asddubs on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @10:21PM (#26575848)
wine alone wouldn't allow you to run x86 apps
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Re:Do you really want Linux phones by heavyset_go on Thursday March 25, 2021 @03:53PM (#26584608)
There's definitely a way to use Wine along with binfmt_misc to run x86 apps on ARM or other architectures.

edit: Hangover lets you run x86 programs via Wine on ARM platforms: https://github.com/AndreRH/hangover

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Re:Do you really want Linux phones by pogo99 on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @11:02PM (#26576084)
I suppose you would have to use qemu userspace emulation at least.
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