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Qualcomm claims that my Samsung Galaxy S25 Plus' Snapdragon 8 Elite CPU is faster than the Intel Core Ultra 288V chip. My smartphone also has 12GB of RAM and 512GB of solid-state storage. In short, it's more powerful than most of my laptops. So why not use it as a laptop?

Why not, indeed, says Google, which has introduced -- at long last -- a native Linux Terminal application in its March 2025 Pixel Feature Drop.

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[–] dingdongitsabear@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

there's this thing https://furilabs.com/ but not FOSS; hopefully some of their hacks can make it into mobian or sumsuch

While interesting, that's not really news.

I have been running bash linux commands on my android device back in 2016 via Termux. it worked perfectly fine back then already, you could apt install applications and python3 your script.

The problem is with other things. Android is dedicated to being actually usable on touch-screen devices. Installing desktop apps on Android would un-do that effect, so i guess it wouldn't make a lot of sense.

[–] ouch@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Is there an official source for this?

The article links to this blog post, but I did not see anything relevant in it:

https://blog.google/products/pixel/pixel-drop-march-2025/

[–] brax@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why do we want this when we can already install it via Termux?

[–] Grazed@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

This is native while termux is emulated, I think.

[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Life is full of choices, isn't it.

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[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] perishthethought@lemm.ee 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Its goog so:

  • you get Debian terminal, run whatever you want!
  • they get to track everything you do, remember your passwords for you and sell that data to everyone they can!
[–] daddy32@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Everything you want, except sudo! That's freaking dangerous for you!

[–] cron@feddit.org 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This incident will be reported.

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[–] cron@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago

If this will be anything like the Linux environment in chromebooks, then it will lack hardware acceleration. This could result in linux programs feeling sluggish and slow.

[–] lostbit@feddit.nl 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

oh i like this.

too bad its still android with al there tracking and bloatware. Hopefully degoogled roms will follow

[–] superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

I'm pretty sure I saw this is going to work on graphene

[–] CassiniWarden@infosec.pub 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Would be nice to have some alternative for my Note 10+ that is no longer getting updates. Seems it's not popular enough to have an EOL root/custom rom made, so it's just stuck. Seems a waste for a device with decent CPU/GPU and 12gb ram.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Zomg, you have Lineage OS!

LineageOS A free and open-source operating system for various devices, based on the Android mobile platform.

Your phone will feel snappier than ever, you'll get latest Android stuff (I'm sure official support for 15 is coming), and security updates.

You can also easily google or degoogle it.

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/d2s/
(Or if it's the 5G variant)

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Only if they have the Exynos variant. Won't work on the Qualcomm variant, annoyingly.

[–] CassiniWarden@infosec.pub 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bingo, it's the Qualcomm variant unfortunately.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 1 points 23 hours ago
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