I see tihngs like that becoming common place. I think (and am suprised we haven't already seen many) HDMI docks for phones that do what that video does. I know one exists for Note 4. It's like $40 bucks. I may get one.

But essentially, dock your phone to a device that has USB support for keyboard & mouse, and an HDMI connection, and BAM! instant computer.

I've done it a few times with my tablet and a bluetooth keyboard. It's kinda neat, but not quite as useful without a trackball.

I really wish that I could easily be on Linux 100% instead of Mac OSX, but I'll never learn Mac OSX well if I don't stick to it 😞 I do have VirtualBox 5 running the latest Linux Mint 17.2 on it and that runs pretty well. But type 2 VMs are just never snappy like a native desktop is 😞

It is basically Steam's Big Screen mode and on Linux. So set up to be a console out of the box instead of converting an existing machine into that.

Linux Mint 17.2 Rafaela

Diamond

@scottalanmiller said:

Well the setup in the article uses the graphical login interface, so no.

Darn. That'd be cool.

@scottalanmiller said:

Maybe because they wanted to imply the endless chicken and egg dilemma.

lol, I hope not. I don't need my PC having existential dilemma's

@Lakshmana said:

@Reid-Cooper OK I have disabled my firewall and gave only the IP address for the system to be in remote

This makes no sense...enable the firewall and allow port 5900 in IPTables.

I'll definitely be upgrading to this new version and checking it out before I try a different flavour of Linux on it though

Well, I'm glad the wallpaper was a priority... </sarcasm>

Systemd replaces Upstart The Linux kernel has been upgraded Unity and Compiz get minor upgrades Locally Integrated Menus are now default A new wallpaper has been implemented All the major apps have been upgraded

I just bought a new Dell Inspiron for one of our part time workers that has a flip capability. I doubt she will ever use it that way.

I love Linux but, not as a desktop. It's graphic system well sucks.
Windows 7 was pretty good aside from being resource intensive (do to aero graphic mainly).
Windows 8/8.1 start menu sucked on desktops but there was a lot of good changes especially with windows updates handling.
I'm liking windows 10 so far.

@scottalanmiller said:

@thanksajdotcom said:

Ubuntu switched to Unity, which is as bad as it gets. GNOME was WAY better!

No disagreement there. But that Unity is the worst and Gnome is better doesn't say much for Gnome. I still put it towards the bottom of any list of desktops. Especially with KDE taking back the lead in quality for the big, heavy desktops from it.

Cinnamon, MATE, KDE, LXDE and several others come way before Gnome for me.

Thankfully desktop environments are all a matter of preference. 😛

The Pokemon computer.