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FreeLikeGNU ,

This makes more sense when coupled with AR glasses (Xreal, Viture, etc) especially when riding in a plane or car for a long trip. With DEX at least, your phone becomes a track pad, but without a typing device it’s a bit limited. Unfortunately many android apps don’t translate well to landscape mode.

drwankingstein ,

This has been a thing for a long time

woelkchen ,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

This has been a thing for a long time

Yeah, duh. The story is about it no longer being hidden and requiring activation: “Android 10 gained a hidden desktop mode in its developer features, but it wasn’t easy to find.”

TurdMongler ,

Probably won’t work on Pixels

Quackdoc ,
@Quackdoc@lemmy.world avatar

in development options I believe you can enable desktop mode one external display, it’s been around since like A10, and with A12L they really fleshed it out. but A14 was another decent improvement.

we_avoid_temptation ,

I’ve seen this option before but most people online say the Pixels only work with DisplayLink. I’m really tempted to order a cable and see if it works

Quackdoc ,
@Quackdoc@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, for sure. The primary issues that Pixel phones do not have DisplayPort out over USB-C enabled. Well, I think the newest ones do.

You also have the option of using scrcpy for testing this. But it’s a bit of hassle.

eco_game ,

The Pixel 8 and onwards technically support DP alt mode again. I’m not sure about stock, but I believe I read about some people having it just work in Graphene OS.

Beaver ,
@Beaver@lemmy.ca avatar

Finally.

umbrella ,
@umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

how about fucking finally

independantiste ,
@independantiste@sh.itjust.works avatar

Ive never really understood the appeal of desktop modes like this or Dex, like, whenever i am somewhere with a keyboard, a mouse, a monitor with some cables, the likelyhood of there already being a fully working computer are very high, and the chances that the computer works better at what I want to achieve are much higher than my dinky phone with phone apps on it

ValenThyme ,

i’m doing school on a samsung tablet and a lot of stuff just works nicer with a bluetooth keyboard and mouse in dex especially web based tests.

So i tend to read and do forum posts with it as a tablet and then for online classes and tests i pull out the keyboard and mouse.

Quackdoc ,
@Quackdoc@lemmy.world avatar

I use it a lot, I keep a little dock with me and a small bluetooth mouse and keyboard, when I’m typing on the go, I can just plug in when I come home and everything is there.

exact same thing with my emulators. I can also chroot into arch and get a full blown desktop environment if needed

Dran_Arcana ,

I think the vision was what Motorola delivered briefly a decade ago with webtop. The original version of it was a chrooted lubuntu with full access to apt, and custom applications that let you render your phone, or phone apps as an application. It was powerful enough to get me through my first 3 years of a computer science program in college with a lapdock as my primary “computer”. (Think a brainless laptop, that you dock your phone into)

arstechnica.com/…/motorola-atrix-the-ubuntu-power…

When they moved from android 2.3 to 4.0, they dropped the lubuntu webtop in favor of Android’s tablet mode, which was a huge bummer, and what made me get an actual laptop. Outside of gaming, if that were the average computer paradigm today I’d be a happy camper. Why buy two computers when you can buy one instead?

scarilog , (edited )

I’m honestly surprised this feature is still around. Don’t get me wrong, I love that it’s available when I get the chance to use it, but it’s so rarely, I question whether the development effort necessary to keep it going is really worth it.

Edit: completely forgot the value Dex has for Samsung tablets. Happy that they make this feature available on phones too.

Inui ,

Personally I envision a future where most people don’t even need desktops at home and if they don’t need a dedicated laptop either will just dock their phone when they get home as their primary device and take it with them when they leave.

cupcakezealot ,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

i use dex but if they can find a way to let this desktop mode work with 3rd party launchers unlike dex it’ll be welcome

Quackdoc ,
@Quackdoc@lemmy.world avatar

it should, AOSP external desktop mode does work with 3rd party launchers, and you can even kinda get it working on samsung, but it was a massive hassle getting it to work for me.

sunzu ,

wen linux

sbv ,

I’m impressed how el Reg fleshed out a pretty sparse story with a bunch of relevant (self) links.

comrade19 ,

Like Samsung dex?

pelletbucket ,

bro the lack of Dex on my Pixel feels embarrassing for google.

machinin OP ,

I believe so.

woelkchen ,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

Like Samsung dex?

No, if the state shown in the video somewhat matches the final release, it’s not going to be a competitor to DeX anytime soon.

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