Winlator is an Android application that lets you to run Windows (x86_64) applications with Wine and Box86/Box64.
Version 3.0 Changelog:
- Improved Audio Plugin
- Added PulseAudio
- Added the option to choose the Box86/Box64 version
- Added the option to choose the Turnip version
- Added Custom resolution option
- Improved Input Controls
- Improved Lock Cursor option
- Added Task Manager to main menu
- Updated OBB Image to version 3
- Other bug fixes and improvements
Phones are far cheaper than a computer tho. For people in third world country tech can be too expensive. Buying a 2 in 1 combo would be definitely great. Put the phone in a very basic dock with hdmi out and a few other ports and you have a family computer. Linux would be the ideal OS hopefully decreasing windows monopoly.
An android tablet with a detachable keyboard would be useful as personal laptop for students with limited income.
Not at all. Mini PCs with way more power (cpu, ram, video, cooling) than a phone are as little as $100. That’s about the used price of many 3 year old phones.
These pc’s can run at higher performance levels, and far more continuously, than a phone can, since cooling on a phone is very limited.
My 200 dollar android smartphone breaks all my laptops in all the benchmarks I ran on it that cost so much more than it. Legitimately though, I guess it doesn’t mean that much since there is very little I can compare it with. Minus saying “Oh look wow this web assembly thing runs faster on my smartphone than my cheap computers from eBay!”. Or “Roblox can look and run so much better on my smartphone than on my computer and not run at 20 fps!” Or also “Look at this benchmarking tool it scores higher on my smartphone!” Or also also also “Look at me ma I’m running emulators and ruffle flash-player games faster in the web browser on my phone than on my computer that can’t even run Run 3 at max settings!” Or also also “Look ma I can run Fallout New Vegas at higher settings and higher resolution and framerate than my new cheap 100 dollar mini PC or laptop from eBay!”. Honestly though if you just gave me a real operating system with the terrible mid tier soc in my phone and shoved it into a laptop with a real operating system. I think I would like that a lot more than the 100 watts my biggest laptop draws from the outlet that can’t even hardware encode video with an 8th Gen core i7 Intel with dedicated amd graphics. Like imagine the kind of power-draw a phone soc would have on a normal laptop battery all without paying up the ass for something that has the screen kill itself in 3 years thanks apple. Though but seriously minus the non upgradability of arm MacBooks and anti-repair nonsense; Apple seriously did wonders in taking their mobile silicon and expanding it into something really really great in the traditional computing world and making a unique series of chips separate from their mobile counterparts. X86 needs to finally die. Anything else should be looked for in the future. It is embarrassing that my shitty low end smartphone out performs all the computers at my local Walmart.
That may be the case, but I wasn’t thinking about third world countries.
Yes if it’s impossible for you to buy one that’s a different thing, you are doomed to inconvenience and that’s sad, but if you can find the money for it, even if only after saving for 1-2 years for used hardware that you put into a half-decent case, it’s still much better. I would definitely do that as I have the thought of only having a phone that is only smart enough to mine the
shitdata our of me, but otherwise very inconvenient and almost useless for daily things.I have recently bought a decent laptop with touchscreen and pen, it was cheaper than a lot of phones.
Yes this is not a desktop, but can be made into one as it runs regular Linux, has normal USB ports and support for external display.
Another reason I don’t agree (or like it in case it will become true) that desktops will die out is that there are certain tasks really don’t work and will never work on phones: programming and other more involved and serious things. The phone is very small to fit all the the tool buttons you’ll use (especially with today’s bulky space wasting design where margins are everything), and the keyboard will hide half or more of the screen when opened. How do you see through what you have done so far? You don’t.
Another thing: I truly believe that for free communication that is not continuously analyzed by god-complex billionaires and their companies, more people needs to run peer to peer based software on some kind of device they own. It shouldn’t be rare anymore for that to happen. That won’t work with phones and portables: continous wireless traffic and such eats the battery. These P2P apps will need something that can be always online instead of them, so that they can work with acceptable resource usage.
Desktops are a good choice for both of these purposes, even more if set up to conserve power by turning off the graphics processor and such when they are not needed.