I barely touched the Linux office in the past year, but that doesn’t have much to do with Linux and more to do with Linux equipment – or its absence. I fell in love with foldable phones, and I want there to be a Linux device in the shape of my Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 fold.
I initially rejected folding phones like a gadget. Now, I loved how practical it is to have a big touch screen in my pocket at any time. I don’t need a keyboard and a mouse. It has become the favorite form of my PC, and like many Linux users, I want to see Linux come to all things.
Linux is already compatible
Linux can be mainly associated with servers and desktop PCs, but it is surprisingly well suited to tactile screen devices. My favorite desktop environment, Gnome, seems to have been designed with tactile screens in mind. I would personally see Gnome flourish in its own operating system. He has most of the necessary bits, on laptops and tablets.
The overview of the GNOME activity facilitates the launch of applications and the switching between virtual office computers with a few gestures. Gnome applications are relatively simple and adaptive, so you can open the same application on monitors and wide screen smartphones such as Libre 5.
KDE plasma may not look like an office focused on the touch screen, but you would be surprised. The icons of Application Envia and become a little larger when the software detects that it operates on a touch screen, and in the modular manner of KDE, you are free to rethink the office to take the form you want.
Linux is finally proven on tablets
I remember watching the beginnings of Gnome 3 in 2011 while I was at university. Critics called it an operating system at a time when the iPad only had a year. I deeply wanted that I had such a tablet to execute Linux, but the only option at the time was to use a Cabriolet laptop with a touch screen. I did not have this type of PC, and despite appearances, Desktop Linux was not yet optimized to work well on one even if I did.
In a few years, it was viable to install Linux on a 2 in 1, but it would be closer to a decade before seeing Linux on apparatus in the shape of modern tablets. Today, you can run a full version of Linux on tablets like the Star Labs Starlite, the Purism Librem 11, the Fydetab Duo and more powerful equipment such as Minisforum V3. Linux works like a champion, although you still occasionally encounter problems from changes specific to distribution which are not the failure or limitation of the Gnome. Although the open tablet equipment is still not common enough to simply collect a device in a large -area store, it has become easy enough to find options online.
Linux would make my fold even more like a pock
Last year, I abandoned Linux for office computers based on Android like Samsung Dex. For years, Linux societies as Canonical and Purism have excited me on the vision of convergence, but it was Samsung who managed to sell it practically. My Galaxy Z Fold 6 is a truly convergent device that is quite transparent of a phone in a tablet, becomes a laptop when it is connected to a lapdock, works like a desktop PC when placed in a quay and can be used as a streaming box when connected to a TV. For the moment, I am locked in the use of Android because no other combination of software and hardware supports this degree of flexibility from a single device, but I would like to have an option supplied by Linux.
A Linux device would provide me with full access to any file of my device in a way that is not available on Android without going through the complicated process of rooting. I would have a huge set of command line tools at my disposal. Then there are applications.
As a gnome, this is the software I want on my phone. I would gladly write drastrophe drafts while the Amberol or the cover plays in the background. As a person who mainly reads electronic books and comics on my foldable, I would make intensive use of foliate. But what I want most is the overview of Gnome’s activities itself. The Gnome interface provides one of the most intuitive and versatile ways of several tasks on a touch screen that I still saw. It is a step beyond the taskbar available on most current book style folders.
Foldables are already the most attractive for technological nerds
Foldable phones have not exceeded their slab phone counterparts. It is not even close. Much of this, without a doubt, has to do with the price. But whatever the reason, current foldable buyers tend to be technology enthusiasts. These are people who seek to do more with the Pocket PC in their hands.
After all, the excitement of having a full -fledged quay to switch between applications on a phone will not use people who rarely click on the taskbar on their PC. Shared screen multitasking has a limited attraction to someone whose laptop only shows one application on the full screen at the same time. Frankly, this is the way many standards use their PC. They are already able to use a traditional phone in the same way.
Some of us who are the most excited for book style foldables are those who have long dreamed of having a complete computer that we could carry in our hands. We are the people who look at a device like the pocketchip and get it intrinsically.
I love the foldable form factor more than any other type of computer hardware that I have ever held. Now, if only I could combine it with software and code, I can really have and have total control. A flexible device with such flexible software? It is a future that I can’t wait to take place.
- Brand
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Samsung
- RAM
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12 GB
- Storage
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256 GB
- Battery
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4,400mAh
- Operating system
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A UI 8
- Connectivity
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5G, LTE, Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4
The thinnest and lightest fold of Samsung looks like an ordinary phone when closed and a powerful multitasking machine when open. With an 8 -inch brighter display and a Galaxy AI on the device, it is ready for work, game and everything else.
