Thread: What's the best Handheld gnu/linux machine for 2016?
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Originally Posted by mscion View Post
One draw back is that sound does not work, or at least it never was known to work well using Linux on Android app.
This is, at least for me, literally the only remaining benefit Sailfish OS has over Android.

That because Sailfish OS uses many of the same components used by desktop GNU/Linux, communication between the chroot and the host is trivial. Not only audio; but also D-Bus, process/user/network management, etc. E.g. I have the ability to configure networks from the chroot, including complicated setups such as NAT from Wi-fi to USB, or to place phone calls from the chroot, send SMS, interact with the notifications, etc.

While _any_ of these is possible with a chroot under Android, it becomes much harder.

For example, I'm sure that it is possible to write a Pulseaudio service in Android, so that you can have audio from the chroot, but a) it is much harder b) it will suck (e.g. latency, mapping of features, etc.).


Sadly, SailfishOS could also be much better in this regard. For example, Wayland is, at this point, an annoyance more than anything.

Originally Posted by mscion View Post
The other thing is you can connect to bigger screen via hdmi so you have a full computer.
I've installed x2go on my Gentoo chroot, and I have to say it's a good experience to be able to have a "known-good" Gentoo desktop in any computer I plug my Jolla in. HDMI and USB-host would be icing on the cake...

Originally Posted by mscion View Post
While playing around on my Note Edge I noticed I can actually treat my linux distribution as a virtual machine. In this screenshot below I have fedora running in a window I can open and close or minimize!
(Not exactly, since you can't hibernate it, and I'm not sure if Android has swap enabled?)


Originally Posted by mscion View Post
Samsung has done a great job with its stylus. Really comes in handy in many ways. Can use to cut and paste and even convert handwriting to text.
:envy: It is very tempting. In fact that's one the very few things I'd swap the hw keyboard on the Jolla 1 for.

I've spent more than 150eur in various capacitive stylii and my overall impression is that they all suck, except for Apple's one.
 

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