Linux desktop on your phone...

[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]

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

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]

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

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.

[vinceASPECT]

Forum memnbers,


i don't know if my rants are pertinent to this thread.  sorry

you want to use an iphone in a particular way by putting an APP on it
but you can't find that type of APP?........hmm

As regards Android i find some crazy powerful APPS for NON ROOTED phones
including SHIZUKU and then there are hundreds of other apps you can install & Run BECAUSE
YOU HAVE "SHIKUZU" installed .........an example would be "ShizuTools"

There are many many other powerful apps you can install and run becuase they find SHIZUKU


to enable SHIZUKU you just use the WIRELESS DEBUGER method and DEveloper mode.

Some things SHIZUTOOLS enables are , for example, a PANEL of independent VOLUME SLIDERS for each app you are currently running together ......which all produce sound

another feature of it is it lets you choose from ALL OF YOU APPS
which ones you want to share their audio with any others you select
who produce audio..............so all of those apps you choose will produce audio together
& you hear all of it at the same time...........then you can use the SLIDERS to mix it

Another feature is There is a floating window app......that will float any amount of floating
windows.... with an APP inside each window AT THE SAME TIME and SCREEN


and so on.......

i don't know how that stuff above may help your iphone issue but there is also
and android app that allows me to run any ios app on my android

is there a similar app for iphone that lets you run android apps?.....then you could run your android
versiom of SFTP on iphone

best wishes
C

[hiro]

yeah vince i think what you're describing sounds a lot like a "soft" jailbreak, which is probably too much effort, sorry.

Leee: My info is outdated, but first hand. Last I tried I found apple makes it deliberately hard to access your photo storage:
1) i tried using the internal file explorer and usb sticks with lightning adapter: didn't work.
2) i tried apps that serve as sshfs explorers: stalled, never finished copying.
3) finally, after apple released a samba mount feature in the main file explorer: photo copies still kept stalling and i never finished a proper sync

I heard from other people that for photos this is solved now by the opensource and self-hostable immich server (&app).