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Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android

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1016 points mikenew | 5 comments | 14 May 25 15:11 UTC | HN request time: 0.629s | source
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gejose ◴[17 May 25 19:52 UTC] No.44016534[source]▶
What a shame that you really can't do this using an iPhone. Unless things have changed recently the closest you can come to this is using iSH to run some linux binaries (x86_32), but it's quite limited last I checked.
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1. theturtletalks ◴[17 May 25 20:06 UTC] No.44016630[source]▶
UTM runs virtual machines on iOS and has been around a while: https://getutm.app

Issue is that Apple doesn’t allow apps to run JIT so if you want the JIT version of UTM, you need to sideload or Jailbreak. The non-JIT version is on the App Store.

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2. ukuina ◴[17 May 25 20:14 UTC] No.44016682[source]▶
Are there any OSes that have usable performance (<1min to boot) on iOS without JIT? I tried a few and they were impractically slow.
3. josephg ◴[17 May 25 22:14 UTC] No.44017430[source]▶
What’s the performance penalty for the non JIT version?
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4. theturtletalks ◴[17 May 25 22:19 UTC] No.44017456[source]▶
Reviews on the App Store say very slow and you can’t move windows without waiting minutes. A Linux distro that’s CLI only seems to work.
5. gejose ◴[20 May 25 17:00 UTC] No.44043652[source]▶
I've tried the non JIT version, and while it's cool that something like this even works, it's not actually usable. It's very, very slow for anything graphical. You might be able to get away with just running a terminal.