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vinceASPECT:
Hello forum,

Do any of you enjoy running a native speed desktop Linux on your phones?

From what I am reading, it says even non rooted phones will give near native performance with
Minor overheads to phone cpu ......if you use the free TERMUX app and the method below

https://www.perplexity.ai/search/how-do-i-install-a-gui-desktop-doVnAiEuSz2nqzNyFya4zg

It's a good desktop computer experience from even just a $25 new Walmart phone

Setup a swapfile too.....maybe zram of 1 gig.......and for the example given use a proot distro like
It advises at the end there

Many of the other Linux desktop free apps for Android are not as effective as this one

You can easily beam the desktop over to your large screen .......or you can
Use a new 5 bucks VR BOX for a 65 inch desktop..... by sliding your phone into
The box and using a free side by side app to show your phone screen TWICE
In one .....side by side
Use bluetoothe mouse and keyboard


Thx
C

hiro:
i kinda stopped using phones for anything productive when they stopped having keyboards (symbian on nokia e72 and BB10 was very usable for ssh'ing into servers).

i manage to slot so much time in front of proper workstations that i desperately need all screen-off time i can get, so i have to say i don't even miss it.

i would never buy a mobile computer without a proper screen+keyboard any more. but i have 3 backup thinkpads which should last a long time anyways ;)

Leee:

--- Quote from: hiro on December 11, 2025, 07:43:21 PM ---i kinda stopped using phones for anything productive when they stopped having keyboards (symbian on nokia e72 and BB10 was very usable for ssh'ing into servers).

i manage to slot so much time in front of proper workstations that i desperately need all screen-off time i can get, so i have to say i don't even miss it.

i would never buy a mobile computer without a proper screen+keyboard any more. but i have 3 backup thinkpads which should last a long time anyways ;)

--- End quote ---
I used to do a 24/7 support rotation and carried the company's blackberry "classic" that I could use, in a pinch, to troubleshoot the entire EDI communications system via ssh - I had even tweaked the UI and reporting so everything fit decently on the blackberry screen.

The company had a third party warranty on the blackberry so, when the charging port went bad, I asked them to send me a new blackberry.  They said they'd have it to me within three days.  The next day they said, "Um... We can't get Blackberries any more so we're sending you a very nice iPhone instead."  Yeah, thanks a lot.

hiro:
yeah, exact same thing here. i installed an ssh client on the iPhone and have since never picked it up for anything but phonecalls...

Leee:

--- Quote from: hiro on December 13, 2025, 04:06:14 AM ---yeah, exact same thing here. i installed an ssh client on the iPhone and have since never picked it up for anything but phonecalls...

--- End quote ---
I'm not really an iPhone user nowadays myself but a family member is and I'd like to set up an SFTP -server- on her phone that way I have on my android, in order to allow a PC to automatically retrieve photos from the iPhone.  Do you know if there is such a thing?  It seems like when I search for an iPhone SFTP server, I only get hits for SFTP -ckients- which is not what I want.

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