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I agree, although having bought a Samsung Tab S9 for this reason, it too seems to be very limiting. Samsung Dex is cool and all, but the app selection on Android is worse than iOS and I couldn’t find a way to run Linux since Linux on Dex was killed off.

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Man, Dex is in this horrible spot right now where it's so cool, and so close to being the dream, but misses the mark in a couple of spots (like Linux support) and therefore becomes essentially useless (or rather, toy status). If Samsung fixed a few things like that, I'd be buying the crap out of those tablets.

Have ou tried Termux ?

Yeah, it’s good but iOS also has iSH so the experience is pretty similar.

iSH has to do some insane user-mode x86 emulation, resulting in terrible performance penalty. The experience is not even close to similar where termux runs things directly on the metal.

Depends on your use case, for mine it works fine and feels similar to Termux. The performance of the iPhone 15 also probably plays a part.

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