More like it builds off the foundation of PureOS by Purism which already has a convergence use case covered by the OS....
this post was submitted on 23 May 2025
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Better late than never I guess
They are trying to kill normal desktops, it will be easier to transition everything online at megacorps.
That's why we need linux phones.
Honestly Graphene on desktop is best case scenario for me. Windows has too many ads and spying, Linux doesn't have enough support, MacOS hardware is too damn expensive and tightly-controlled.
Yes, or LineageOS.
But with Android app support in Linux maybe some day I could get both worlds ...
(I need apps bcs society demands then, like banking, work stuff, etc.)
Oh yeah, good point
DeX is pretty cool. Google should have gone that route from the beginning instead of that split strategy with ChromeOS. More Android apps would support big screens were it not for ChromeBooks running a different, web based OS.
Nothing feels cooler than plugging in my phone with Dex to a small USB c hub at work to get desktop mode on a secondary monitor and then using a VPN home and opening my virtual machine for a full desktop
Yeah dex is very impressive but it still falls short for my use cases. Apart from browsing the web and office suites you cannot do much.
Does that mean desktop mode will be available by default? Some of the earlier reporting said it was hidden behind flags and may never see general release.
It's currently hidden behind some developer settings. On Android 15. It probably won't be ready by the time 16 is released, but it'll probably drop in an update.
That's what I'm hoping for. I doubt I'll use it, but I really liked the idea.
From what I've read in the last few month, it will probably not be ready for the release of android 16.