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  • DeX is infuriating. It’s forever almost good enough to fulfill its promise of being a truly mobile desktop but somehow it’s never gotten there.

    So like ChromeOS? I wouldn’t say DeX is the greatest thing ever but whenever I get home from a stressful work day, sit down at my desk, and then realize that I left my backpack with the notebook at the door, I just plug the next best thing into my USB C dock and sometimes that’s my phone. Heck, I even did image editing with Krita from F-Droid once (the Android port has not been updated in years and is alpha quality, so the experience was bad but that’s on the Krita port not Android/DeX itself).

    The biggest problem now is that most android apps don’t present correctly in desktop mode, don’t behave intuitively, and / or look like ass.

    The quality of Android apps in desktop mode isn’t really dependent on whether they run on ChromeOS or DeX. If anything, the division in OS strategy into three operating systems at Google (don’t forget Fuchsia), caused needless developer fragmentation from both 3rd parties but also within Google.



  • Does that mean we’ll start seeing desktop apps like IDEs running in Android? How are you going to develop python on android? A linux container / VM?

    Non-web applications on ChromeOS already run in containers. Developer mode (or however ChromeOS calls it) is just installing Debian in an LXC container.

    That’s going to be so wasteful.

    Have you ever tried browsing the web using Chrome? THAT’S wasteful on resources. A command line-only container for Python development is nothing by comparison.


  • Finally. ChromeOS has always been a dumb idea. Making an entire OS just to use sluggish web apps in Chrome. Who thought of that? As if Android could not do web apps. Then, years later, ChromeOS got “native” apps, in quotation marks because those were just Android apps. So a whole dedicated OS, just to launch Android apps in a compatibility layer. Some additional years later, ChromeOS got “native” games via Steam. Again, quotation marks, because those run in a Debian-based container.

    Samsung DeX shows since many years that a Android with a desktop UI is a possibility.


  • there were significant issues with 0.19.4

    I don’t know. There’s severe lack of communication regarding such things.

    there are still some issues that are important for us

    Such as? There’s no communication here of what’s going on.

    0.19.6 was released 10 days ago and already had a followup release 0.19.7 to fix some new issues that were introduced in 0.19.6.

    No software is ever free of bugs, especially not one starting with a zero version number.

    if there are any laws stating that this is required to be possible as self-service i’d love to see references for that, because for all i know this is not the case.

    Privacy laws here in Germany and probably the rest of the EU say that ther must be no avoidable delay in the deletion request of user data. 0.19.5 and newer have that feature, therefore by choosing not to update there has to be an avoidable delay.

    That said, there is no communication of news and roadmaps. Maybe on proprietary Discord but not here.