Comment by rchaud
2 years ago
You can do way more than that. Android can run web servers on-device; I can code and edit my PHP website on an Apache/Nginx/Lighttpd local server, and push changes to production server. All without opening Termux.
If you have Termux, you can do even more, like run a VM for a sandbox dev environment. No cloud required.
Android in desktop mode is far more useful and less locked down than Chromebook. As usual, Samsung has led the way in making yet another Android feature viable, as Google tries to catch up 7 years later.
> Android in desktop mode is far more useful and less locked down than Chromebook
My chromebook (framework) has 64gb of ram and 2tb NVME and thunderbolt 4. It also runs containers, vms, vms inside vms, windows vms, macOS vms, AND Android apps from the play store.
Only thing missing is PCI passthrough from thunderbolt enclosure
At 64GB RAM, what you have is a specialist laptop where most of the work is happening inside of a shell environment.
I tried running Android apps on a Chromebook. Even something as simple note taking (Obsidian/Logseq) didn't work properly because it could not save a text file into local storage. That was over a year ago, so I don't know if things have changed.