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My dream has been to have a phone that works like a phone until I get home and plug in a monitor and kbm then it's a full fledged PC. Think Dex but not shitty Samsung Android. While I'm dreaming while docked it could also utilize a desktop grade GPU.
Dex is the closest I can get right now. I'd love to have one device. However I'll need to degoogle and foss more things. I rely on Google Too much for games and such.
May I introduce you to what already existed at one time? (Motorola Atrix 4G from 2011 with Ubuntu desktop when docked.)
Oh I remember. Ahead of its time. RIP.
MaruOS
I think it would have been much bigger if Pixels had hmdi out in the first few gens.
Honestly the steamdeck shows we are getting close. It works like that, just in a slightly bigger form factor and without some of the phone hardware.
A little more tech advancement and I think this won't be that hard to do.
I do this today with my Librem 5 and a 1 TB uSD
IIRC you can do exactly that with the Nintendo Switch (carry it around like a handheld until you plug it into the TV and it becomes a stationary console), though i've never had a Switch myself so i don't know for sure.
The switch is more or less the same when docked, only additional feature is you get to use a higher resolution.
I join you on this. The closest I found is a and old surface pro with Linux and waydroid on it. It is nicer than all my previous try but far far from perfect, not even good. Just meh + +.
That would be the life.