This thread gained more interest than i thought 
Uploading Photos Problem
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How’s your S20 holding up?
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Hey @ikari04warrior hope you are having a great weekend.
Phones doing great, not missing iOS at all.
As with most tech, i don’t use half the features.
And to be fair, i don’t know half of what it can actually do! 
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It’s an impressive phone that’s for sure. And I also don’t use ALL of its features but it’s good knowing they are there in case you need them
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XCFE is very light weighted. Doesn’t need much memory resources.
I would’nt use KDE
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Agree… my experience with KDE is bad… slow and errors / crashes
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Take LINUX MINT.
Simple and clear.
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@professor @Chiquinho came across a post on soundcore collective … remembered you guys and this post…
The Linux-based PinePhone
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if you’re willing to lose Google Pay functionality, you can just unlock bootloader and install or run Linux instead / alongside.
I’ve been running Linux in a chroot for a couple of years for one app I cannot get on Android, using Perl.
Accept it is not full Linux but solves a hole.
Ultimately I think MacOS and ChromeOS will win the large format, with iOS and Android stuck in small format. iOS wins the smaller tablet. With Apple putting Arm into MBP then that solves one issue of laptops over tablets of battery life, copying what ChromeOS did a couple of years ago.
Reminder in Linux you need only a C compiler to recompile any software to a different cpu architecture, and it is common to cross-compile on a fast platform target to a slower one, so Intel / AMD may be still dominant in servers, with everything else ARM based.
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Did you ever think of trying to turn your Samsung phone into a backup laptop running DeX?
It’s a nice geeky thing to play with and you probably have enough horsepower to also install Linux for a full desktop multitasking, Chrome works better, better adblock.
If waiting for my current phone to die and then either go cheap and get OnePlus Nord / Google Pixel 4A, and then when laptop dies buy a decent one, or the opposite go for a high end phone and buy a docking solution.
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Hey @professor
To be fair i haven’t, i’m not all that clued up on things like that and not sure if i would gain much benefit.
Hope you’re having a great day and have the sunshine in your location.
@paulstevenewing DeX mode is good option for a backup desktop, have played around with it for a while, just for testing though. Its a hidden weapon 
comes handy in need.
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A backup desktop exactly. In case laptop fails and you have a work deadline.
Chances are you probably already own all or most of the hardware, so a dongle / hub to make your USBC phone port have hdmi and USB A ports, and then connect monitor, keyboard, mouse to phone.
Initially can be just for play, experiment, but once proven then one day you’ll be glad you did it.
Everything dies, including laptops on the day the car won’t start on the day you got a deadline.
You can also use a Chromecast dongle to make a business meeting presentation off phone, cast screen, in lieu of a cable.
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very relatable … have faced this, am sure many other have!
this is “ok” for one off case… but not a substitute. Wired is always better for presentations (that too for business)
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I’m all for mixing up concepts and blurring the difference between devices.
I maintained a bootable Linux USB stick I’d carry with my Windows laptop incase of Windows snafu, security snafu, drive hardware failure, you can get by off USB live image using browser and similar Linux apps.
Sometimes you’re absolutely stuck on a phone, so Linux on it which can see the Android files can give you an alternative path to solution.
Having your laptop running Linux and then a work VM also has work from home advantage. You can share your full Windows desktop and still have chat in the Linux system the screen share can never see.
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I did that very often with the mobiles from others.
I have no! FREE
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Samsung DeX is also pretty solid, but requires and external display and accessories.
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Hi @paulstevenewing I downloaded Android 11 today, looks great… Will test more tomorrow… Best feature, Native Screen Recorder 
Did you check for it on S20?
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Ill take a look @Shenoy
This phone seems to be doing updates of some description every day.
My phone shows Android 10, but not sure if that’s what it was built on or whether that’s its current version.
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