I’ve been waiting for Android to take desktop mode seriously for years. Back in 2019, I bought a OnePlus 7 Pro and wasted an embarrassing amount of time trying to brute-force its half-baked desktop mode into something useful.
The idea made perfect sense to me even then. Phones were already absurdly powerful, and the thought of carrying one real computer in my pocket felt less like science fiction and more like delayed common sense.
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What wore me down wasn’t the idea. It was the waiting. Devices like the Steam Deck eventually showed that docking a compact machine into a usable desktop setup could actually work, while Google seemed to lose interest in pushing Android the same way.
Samsung, meanwhile, kept refining DeX in plain sight. I’ve spent years lurking on r/SamsungDex, watching people post desktop builds powered by a phone, and resenting the fact that
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