Life's looking good on the Edge !

Hooray! Happy hacking.

Such an awesome review!! Thanks for sharing! 🙂

@Leppa said in Ubuntu Touch Q&A 55 Is Saturday 27th Of July At 19:00 UTC:

Samsung's been working on deX for a long while now, so you'd have to convince them to give up all of their desktop related work.

I think maybe you're referring to Samsung Dex, for which, as you mention, Samsung has invested heavily in their own desktop.

But I'm referring to Samsung's Linux on DeX project, which runs a modified version of Ubuntu (developed by Canonical) in a container, and already has a Unity-like desktop, which if I'm not mistaken, is based on MATE. Also, Samsung Linux on DeX allows installing at least a few other distros and DEs.

You also have to get Mir & Unity8 working on android, which would in itself be a huge task.

Yep, 100% agreed. I'm under the impression that the above mentioned Unity-like desktop (because it's based on MATE) doesn't support Wayland, and so can't (yet) rely on Mir as a compositor. Whether Linux on DeX is currently capable of using a DE that supports Wayland, I don't know. But I imagine that if it's not yet possible, Samsung is working on it. 🙂

Very good podcast!

@UniSuperBox Hello if we need to click to run the desktop games why use libertine? me I think (and that's what I see on github) that it would be necessary to put the material acceleration on libertine because half of the desktop app does not launch .. (I tried 0AD) ben he goes off desuite good after I support the project at 100%;) so I do not criticize at all but it will be cool the new version of mir and Unity 8! good luck !

🙂 Thank you, @UBportsNews

@Okkie said in Ubuntu Touch Q&A 53 Saturday 29th June At 19:00 UTC:

Is there a build of ubports he can get his hands on?

Lukasz is in our community and I'm pretty sure is well aware of the status. My understanding is that there are still some issues with graphics with mir/unity8, but it's being worked on. The rootfs for the PinePhone is also built from edge channel, so it's using new unity8/mir already. I think it's also using the arm64 rootfs, so there may be some additional hindrances from that, as Canonical never released a fully working 16.04 arm64 image on anything.