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I've had something close to this for years with my N900 (circa 2009). It detects when I am at home or work (via WIFI), and mounts its file systems on my laptops via sshfs. I can run Debian apps on my N900, and have the laptop display the UI via X11. I'm hoping this will work even more smoothly when I get my neo900.

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Is there anything stopping you doing this on current Android devices? You can run a debian userland without any trouble, and there's an X11 server available in the Play store (`x.org.server`).

I suppose the usability leaves something to be desired in the general case, but even all-in-one apks like `org.gimp.inkscape` go a long way to addressing this.

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