Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode

Once again, goggle catches up with linux features from 10 years ago.

Just one example article, using a chroot environment:

https://www.nextpit.com/turn-your-android-device-into-a-linu...

But Ubuntu touch, and other native linux phone installs have touted desktop mode over the years.

The h/w 10 years ago was marginal at performing this task, and the non-corporate OSes were, and are, actively suppressed by goggle and the rest of the corporate "phone" development industry. This is an almost identical scenario as M$ dominating the PC manufacturing business, even though they didn't make the h/w.

But this serves as another typical example of how long ago this type of feature could have been available if every new innovation didn't have to be vetted from the perspective of vendor benefit, instead of advancing on the basis of user benefit.

This is a concept that seems to be ressucted from time to time... The first I remember was Motorola Atrix, launched in 2011: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Atrix_4G

And yet Android was used by billions of people without a desktop mode existing. Ubuntu Touch is behind in the core things users actually value.

> Ubuntu Touch is behind in the core things users actually value

Indeed, the primary "core thing" missing is being manufactured and dictated to "the market" by a multi-billion $ monopoly...

Canonical is (currently) a multi billion company and there is not a monopoly in phone manufacturers