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>Qualcomm claims that my Samsung Galaxy S25 Plus' Snapdragon 8 Elite CPU is faster than the Intel Core Ultra 288V chip. My smartphone also has 12GB of RAM and 512GB of solid-state storage. In short, it's more powerful than most of my laptops. So why not use it as a laptop? Why not, indeed, says Google, which has introduced -- at long last -- a native Linux Terminal application in its March 2025 Pixel Feature Drop. Of course, Android is Linux. However, it's a mobile-first Linux distribution with a smartphone-friendly interface that bears little resemblance to the traditional Linux shell interface, never mind the Linux graphical user interfaces and their programs. That's changed now.

Archive: https://archive.today/iglyN From the post: >>Qualcomm claims that my Samsung Galaxy S25 Plus' Snapdragon 8 Elite CPU is faster than the Intel Core Ultra 288V chip. My smartphone also has 12GB of RAM and 512GB of solid-state storage. In short, it's more powerful than most of my laptops. So why not use it as a laptop? Why not, indeed, says Google, which has introduced -- at long last -- a native Linux Terminal application in its March 2025 Pixel Feature Drop. Of course, Android is Linux. However, it's a mobile-first Linux distribution with a smartphone-friendly interface that bears little resemblance to the traditional Linux shell interface, never mind the Linux graphical user interfaces and their programs. That's changed now.

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Getting Linux running is only half the battle. Programs are largely written for x86. So trying to run on a mobile ARM chip will have odd and unreliable results, assuming they can run at all. It is a step in the right direction however.

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ARM support has come a long way in the last decade. Most major distros have an ARM version and good portion of their standard packages are being built for it. I think cloud computing helped push this.

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Has Debian come that far? I have seen the distro you refer to, I think the arch and Ubuntu ones are the front runners. Didn't recall seeing Debian getting in on the action

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Devuan has multiple ARM builds. Biggest hurdle will be the radio drivers/firmware.

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I’ve only personally used the Ubuntu ARM edition, but according to the :

Arm64 has been a first-class release architecture in Debian ever since Debian 8 'Jessie', with almost all packages built, and the standard installer working on various machines, and quite likely to work on new ones.

Most of the ARM packages I used in Ubuntu ARM are probably maintained by Debian devs.

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Yeah, there has been a ton of progress to get things to run under ARM though over the last 10-ish years. It's not nearly as bad as it used to be. I remember having to setup my own personal cross-compiling environment to get basic stuff working on various little SBC's I had.