Came across this. Looking forward to this as I hope the desktop mode will come to Graphene.
Thoughts?
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Compared to our initial tests back in January, the Terminal app now runs Linux apps far more reliably, though performance is still sluggish. When we ran the Speedometer benchmark inside the VM, for example, it scored less than half of what it did natively. Google still has a lot of work to do to fix bugs and improve performance, but it’s impressive how far the feature has come since its initial release.
It may take years for feature parity. While Linux apps can run, it is far too slow to expect the same performance on Android devices.
That reminds me, would an Android phone with a Snapdragon 8 Elite or a Tensor G5 even be comparable to a modern desktop CPU when running real world tasks? I think that a dedicated Android laptop/desktop will run something like a Snapdragon X Elite instead (which is more suitable with real workloads)
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I wonder if you’ll be able to use other Linux distros than the default… I know Chris Titus used Arch instead of Debian with ChromeOS a few years ago.
Finally a secure general computing platform, and hopefully private too with GrapheneOS. I am waiting for some more pieces to come together, like the android laptop from google, and the windows VM + linux apps on android terminal. Will ditch every other platform and use P2P tools on these secure platforms to have decent security baseline.
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Couldn’t you just use a GrapheneOS phone and a portable monitor or lapdock to replace a laptop?
@hjkl I replaced the default Debian with NixOS: https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-avf
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I prefer to have multiple devices for redundancy.
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