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Is it possible??? nexuS one and Htc EVO can do it ???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN4c61ETCWg&feature=player_embedded#at=
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iM GONNA try it wish me luck

goodluck! post back with results asap

Yea good luck
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It is possible, and I have successfully done it. It is not very useful though. But we are not always interested in usefulness, now are we?
Anyway, google "Desire HD Linux" and I believe it is one of the first, if not the first, links. Similar method geared toward the Desire HD, which is almost identical to our device internally. It works.

Question, but isn't that just VNC?

GazaIan said:
Question, but isn't that just VNC?
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i'm pretty sure vnc just lets you view your computer at home, or view your screen when you're away.

Do you even know why you would want Ubuntu? Is it for the GUI, our for a better bash shell?
If you look around (I accidentally found this only a week ago) you can find Debian images for the android that they have had out since the G1. And they work on the MT4G.
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aalsmadi1 said:
i'm pretty sure vnc just lets you view your computer at home, or view your screen when you're away.
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Which this essentially is in the video you even install vnc lol
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now the real shocker would be if we could put windows mobile on our mt4g or dual boot either 2 android roms or windows mobile and android.

Question, but isn't that just VNC?
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Yes, it uses VNC. It is used since there are no video drivers available for Linux on this platform, which is difficult due to the lack of code/documentation from Qualcomm. Ubuntu is actually running on the phone's hardware through a chroot shell, and VNC connects to the local host via a socket connection to provide the display. Just a way for the display to be displayed, if you will.

iTunes

I'm sorry if this has been asked, but I've checked as much as I could. But does iTunes work on Windows 8? That's the second most used program by me other than chrome, so its kinda important. Thanks in advance
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wyattyoss said:
I'm sorry if this has been asked, but I've checked as much as I could. But does iTunes work on Windows 8? That's the second most used program by me other than chrome, so its kinda important. Thanks in advance
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most of the apps from win7 can work on win8... Try it! (Some apps needed .net framework v3.5.1)
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iTunes works. You won't get any fancy Metro layout, but it works. Odd ting is, it heats the hell out my laptop on Windows 8.

GazaIan said:
iTunes works. You won't get any fancy Metro layout, but it works. Odd ting is, it heats the hell out my laptop on Windows 8.
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U need cooling fan...
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GazaIan said:
iTunes works. You won't get any fancy Metro layout, but it works. Odd ting is, it heats the hell out my laptop on Windows 8.
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Thanks, since I don't have a flash drive or external hard drive and about 20gigs of music, is there an easy way to transfer my entire library?
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wyattyoss said:
Thanks, since I don't have a flash drive or external hard drive and about 20gigs of music, is there an easy way to transfer my entire library?
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Are you currently running Windows 7? You can just install Windows 8 on another partition and browse the partition with music in Windows Explorer. If you're upgrading (not recommended), then you can just upgrade and keep everything intact.

itunes works great but he can't find my brother's iphone --'
i said him "android is better" but he didn't listen to me...
so?? you've got the same problem?

Lol I'm glad I downloaded the google music beta
It uploaded my entire itunes library before I tried out windows 8 and it works beautifully streaming from the cloud.
That was one of the things stopping me from trying it out was that I would've had no music but now all is well
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Install using android mass storage?

Can we boot and install win 8 through mass storage on android?
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A_Flying_Fox said:
Can we boot and install win 8 through mass storage on android?
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unless you're confident enough to ruin your device, no. things you need are:
-a BIOS
-a Tablet (not a galaxy phone)
-an ARM chipset
-a fat32/NTFS HDD Partition
-16 GB of HDD (average droid tablet only have 16gb. so why install?)
-and, the ability to choose boot location on booting up
androids do not have all of the above except the ARM thing. so no.
anyways it's still a dev preview not a fully-functional desktop/tablet OS. so don't treat it as such and thank me. even if it's not helping you (ungrateful bastard)

+thanks whore lol.

johnston9234 said:
+thanks whore lol.
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Hilarious
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You can't install on android tablets but you can install on tablets that comes with windows 7/vista/xp tablet edition.
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Sorry let me rephrase......
I meant can you put windows 8 on the sd card and install it onto a windows 7 pc using the mass storage option in android?
I don't have a usb stick or dvd so my phone will be the only way id be able to install it on a pc..
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A_Flying_Fox said:
Sorry let me rephrase......
I meant can you put windows 8 on the sd card and install it onto a windows 7 pc using the mass storage option in android?
I don't have a usb stick or dvd so my phone will be the only way id be able to install it on a pc..
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I realize you probably figured it out, but for anyone else that might be wondering if this works, it does. That's how I originally did it, but then I read you can download a program that uses your cd-rom as a USB drive of sorts for the ISO file and I did it that way for my old laptop. I forgot what it was called, but I found it by googling how to install the new developer's build.
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Questions about windows 8

Okay, I'm using windows 8 release preview x64 on my gateway desktop, and I need some help with a couple things.
First of all, metro apps will not load. I have tried several tweaks around xda and other sites and cannot get anything more than the app preview screen coming up for just a second, then closing. I have an ATI Radeon 5450HD graphics card, running proper amd catalyst drivers for windows 8, and all settings are correct.
Second, has anyone been able to get dfs tool working on windows 8? I've tried installing it in compatibility mode for windows XP, Vista, and 7, all with no luck.
Any help with either issue would be greatly appreciated... And sorry this isn't in a Q&A section, but I couldn't find Q&A forum for windows 8. TIA...
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No one?
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I have my Win 8 running in a VMware virtual machine. I noticed that Metro apps will timeout loading if it is taking too long.
The app eventually loads but does so minimized. Check your left side to see if it is running.
If you are seeing a lot of your apps doing this, you may need to upgrade your computer to something faster.
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willgill said:
I have my Win 8 running in a VMware virtual machine. I noticed that Metro apps will timeout loading if it is taking too long.
The app eventually loads but does so minimized. Check your left side to see if it is running.
If you are seeing a lot of your apps doing this, you may need to upgrade your computer to something faster.
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Upgrade to something faster? I'm running an I3 as it is...
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powduh09 said:
Upgrade to something faster? I'm running an I3 as it is...
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relax it's just release candidate...u cant expect each program to function.
wait till oct 26.

realzahed said:
relax it's just release candidate...u cant expect each program to function.
wait till oct 26.
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I understand that... But not a single one of the metro apps will start. They just bring up an app preview screen, then it drops to the background, and the app never actually opens.
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I'd just reinstall. You have something wrong. Did it ever work? Maybe go back to a better point in time with System Restore.
You are logged in with a Live account, right? You can't load Metro apps with a local account (to my knowledge). You have to log on with a Live account.
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willgill said:
I'd just reinstall. You have something wrong. Did it ever work? Maybe go back to a better point in time with System Restore.
You are logged in with a Live account, right? You can't load Metro apps with a local account (to my knowledge). You have to log on with a Live account.
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It's a fresh install, I've tried on two different machines, neither of which have ever had metro apps work... And yes, I'm using a live account...
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Timeout
Yes, every metro app has 15 seconds to load, if it doesn't, them it will end.

i think you should reinstall the graphic driver and try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1708349
Also did the metro apps work before or they have never worked

buggatti said:
i think you should reinstall the graphic driver and try this
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1708349
Also did the metro apps work before or they have never worked
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Theyve never worked, even on my laptop, which has Intel integrated graphics. But, I've not tried the guide you linked... I'll try that and report back sometime today...
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powduh09 said:
Theyve never worked, even on my laptop, which has Intel integrated graphics. But, I've not tried the guide you linked... I'll try that and report back sometime today...
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The guide is for and graphics only.... go to Intel driver utility And install the latest driver then try.... I had the same problem it has something to do with hardware acceleration.

buggatti said:
The guide is for and graphics only.... go to Intel driver utility And install the latest driver then try.... I had the same problem it has something to do with hardware acceleration.
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I'm asking for amd, my Intel works fine now
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Windows 8 didn't run properly on my laptop too, had some papercuts as well. The specification requirements for Windows 8 are equal to those of Windows 7. If you can run Windows 7, you can run Windows 8. So, it's all just a bit of patience before RTM and the final release become available.

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Windows 8 didn't run properly on my laptop too, had some papercuts as well. The specification requirements for Windows 8 are equal to those of Windows 7. If you can run Windows 7, you can run Windows 8. So, it's all just a bit of patience before RTM and the final release become available.
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I know this. Guess I'm just going to revert to windows 7 until rtm
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Load Google Chrome OS

I have had my TF300 for a few months and like a lot of people I am not as happy with it as I thought I would be. I got the keyboard dock thinking I would use this more for school than I actually do.
What I would like to do is load the actual Chrome OS on my tablet. I dont know if anyone has even tried this or if it is even possible. I dont know if the Chrome Book OS is open like the OS for Google tabs and phones. It is just thought...
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rbellis said:
I have had my TF300 for a few months and like a lot of people I am not as happy with it as I thought I would be. I got the keyboard dock thinking I would use this more for school than I actually do.
What I would like to do is load the actual Chrome OS on my tablet. I dont know if anyone has even tried this or if it is even possible. I dont know if the Chrome Book OS is open like the OS for Google tabs and phones. It is just thought...
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ChromeOS is built partially from Chromium, which is open source. There was another post about this a while back, and I don't think it went anywhere. Tegra 3 isn't well suited for running ChromeOS if I remember the discussion correctly.

running it on our tegra 3 is something I wasn't sure about. I think most of the chrome books have an atom processor. It would be nice to have.
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rbellis said:
running it on our tegra 3 is something I wasn't sure about. I think most of the chrome books have an atom processor. It would be nice to have.
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Ubuntu is close to working though... its a much more powerful standalone OS than chrome is. I was thinking of going that route soon myself.
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pyraxiate said:
Ubuntu is close to working though... its a much more powerful standalone OS than chrome is. I was thinking of going that route soon myself.
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How close to working are we talking about and where is it posted? The only information I can find in the development section are a few preview builds with very poor hardware support. I bought this tablet with the hopes that I could at least dualboot with ubuntu, so if it is working I would really like to know so I can try it out.
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Duckman5 said:
How close to working are we talking about and where is it posted? The only information I can find in the development section are a few preview builds with very poor hardware support. I bought this tablet with the hopes that I could at least dualboot with ubuntu, so if it is working I would really like to know so I can try it out.
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Well i run linux dual boot on my tf101, tf300t and tf700 lol and they all work great, the tf300t needs a bit more attention, but its definitely worth doing, sound is the issue on debian based distros on the tf300t, but on arch linux it works fine.
These three videos of mine demonstrate where we are with the tf300t
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRHXsG2G3c8 ubuntu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzV4K11YNMY ubuntu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdo5CMLg6oY xubuntu
didnt have time to do arch but its probley the further along in terms of funtionality.

JoinTheRealms said:
Well i run linux dual boot on my tf101, tf300t and tf700 lol and they all work great, the tf300t needs a bit more attention, but its definitely worth doing, sound is the issue on debian based distros on the tf300t, but on arch linux it works fine.
These three videos of mine demonstrate where we are with the tf300t
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRHXsG2G3c8 ubuntu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzV4K11YNMY ubuntu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdo5CMLg6oY xubuntu
didnt have time to do arch but its probley the further along in terms of funtionality.
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I'm impressed and I'm totally in. Where can I get a build to install on my TF300 or do I have to build it myself? I don't have the Android SDK installed on my laptop, so I would probably need a few hours while Gentoo compiles it, but as soon as it finishes I will happily get on it.
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Most chromebook uses exynos processor found in samsung phone, I dont see why it cant run in tegra
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Duckman5 said:
I'm impressed and I'm totally in. Where can I get a build to install on my TF300 or do I have to build it myself? I don't have the Android SDK installed on my laptop, so I would probably need a few hours while Gentoo compiles it, but as soon as it finishes I will happily get on it.
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Well have a look in the xubuntu thread in development, basiclly you need to be on android 4.1(only stock/ stock based rom work atm) and unlocked. Download the xubuntu kernel and rootfs. extract the xubuntu rootfs to /data/media/linux and make sure its called "rootfs.img" then flash the kernel to the staging partition with "dd if=*name of kernel* of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p4" (after you reboot, the tablet will flash the kernel)
from there you shoud get an option to boot into android or linux (it boots linux by default)
if you prefer ubuntu you can download the the install script and rootfs from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2014759 follow the instructions in the thread, but before you reboot open up the built in terminal in twrp and flash the xubuntu kernel with the above command.
For Arch it takes a bit longer but you get better i.o performance and you can get sound working, follow the instructions here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=38874272&postcount=429
if you need more help with this open a new thread, goodluck

JoinTheRealms said:
Well have a look in the xubuntu thread in development, basiclly you need to be on android 4.1(only stock/ stock based rom work atm) and unlocked. Download the xubuntu kernel and rootfs. extract the xubuntu rootfs to /data/media/linux and make sure its called "rootfs.img" then flash the kernel to the staging partition with "dd if=*name of kernel* of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p4" (after you reboot, the tablet will flash the kernel)
from there you shoud get an option to boot into android or linux (it boots linux by default)
if you prefer ubuntu you can download the the install script and rootfs from here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2014759 follow the instructions in the thread, but before you reboot open up the built in terminal in twrp and flash the xubuntu kernel with the above command.
For Arch it takes a bit longer but you get better i.o performance and you can get sound working, follow the instructions here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=38874272&postcount=429
if you need more help with this open a new thread, goodluck
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Xubuntu looks faster. Likely because Unity is a resource hog >.> Reminds me why the first thing I do on ANY ubuntu rig i put together is remove it
Personally im waiting to see how much more work is done then jump aboard. I use my Tf300 at work mostly for iheart radio..... so .... Audio is a must Question though. Are you Dual-Booting Android and nix? I read up on how other devices were dualbooting by replacing recovery with the Ubuntu kernel. Is this similar or is the Android kernel replaced by a linux kernel that loops to the android system ( Via grub/lilo or something similar )? Just wondering
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pyraxiate said:
Xubuntu looks faster. Likely because Unity is a resource hog >.> Reminds me why the first thing I do on ANY ubuntu rig i put together is remove it
Personally im waiting to see how much more work is done then jump aboard. I use my Tf300 at work mostly for iheart radio..... so .... Audio is a must Question though. Are you Dual-Booting Android and nix? I read up on how other devices were dualbooting by replacing recovery with the Ubuntu kernel. Is this similar or is the Android kernel replaced by a linux kernel that loops to the android system ( Via grub/lilo or something similar )? Just wondering
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Yes im dualbooting but we still have our recovery. If we all had access to nvflash wec could modifiy the recovery partition and have linux boot from that, the adavantage of this is better i.o performance, the disadvantage oviously we would lose recovery(this is how the tf101 used to dualboot, but the recovery can be temperally flashed over the linux kernel). We are using a dual init system, the first init will load android processes(and boot android) and the second loop mounts the rootfs.img and boots it.
Yeah sound as far as ive tested on the debian-based linux isnt working, it looks like a kernel issue somewhere that freezes alsa restore, the same thing happens on archlinux but if you remove the restore daemon it works fine (you just have to enable some sound channels, hense what alsa restores jop was)

how far off are we from being able to have this as a day-to-day driver? Sound is very important as I use my tablet for netflix and youtube.
I have never used Linux or pretty much anything other than Windows and now Android. IS this close to an actual OS and not like a mobile Chrome or iOS? I dont know if that makes sense.
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rbellis said:
how far off are we from being able to have this as a day-to-day driver? Sound is very important as I use my tablet for netflix and youtube.
I have never used Linux or pretty much anything other than Windows and now Android. IS this close to an actual OS and not like a mobile Chrome or iOS? I dont know if that makes sense.
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Netflix doesn't work ATM for Linux. It uses silverlight which wouldn't be so bad, but the Linux implementation lacks DRM. You need to run Wine to get Netflix, but it doesn't support running x86 code on our arm processors. So no netflix on your Linux tablet regardless of sound. YouTube is a whole other can of worms. While the code for chromium and Firefox are capable of decoding h.264, it violates patent law to distribute compiled binaries. So incomplete support for all the videos. Sorry.
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Netflix doesn't work ATM for Linux. It uses silverlight which wouldn't be so bad, but the Linux implementation lacks DRM. You need to run Wine to get Netflix, but it doesn't support running x86 code on our arm processors. So no netflix on your Linux tablet regardless of sound. YouTube is a whole other can of worms. While the code for chromium and Firefox are capable of decoding h.264, it violates patent law to distribute compiled binaries. So incomplete support for all the videos. Sorry.
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Which is why you dual boot with android. Or just use android. Android can do all of those things. I actually don't see a huge advantage for using Linux. Sure there are other apps and capabilities but if you have the know how to put Linux on it you probably have a computer running Linux already. Why not use splashtop or teamviewer for remote desktop? Those work 100%. Somebody change my mind. So far I see only cons to using Linux on our tablet.
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andrewnelson23 said:
Which is why you dual boot with android. Or just use android. Android can do all of those things. I actually don't see a huge advantage for using Linux. Sure there are other apps and capabilities but if you have the know how to put Linux on it you probably have a computer running Linux already. Why not use splashtop or teamviewer for remote desktop? Those work 100%. Somebody change my mind. So far I see only cons to using Linux on our tablet.
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Because it's there. Same reason people climb mountains.
There are practical reasons, though. It allows it to be much more of a general purpose computer. I like my Linux laptop, but the only reason I get it out anymore is to burn DVDs ( does android have DVD +R drivers?). I miss it, though. If I have Linux running on my tablet, it would allow me to run to my regular desktop applications. I could run a full office suite on my tablet I could browse the web with a full browser, I could do a lot more things than I currently can. It would make me a lot more productive. Combine that with the incredible battery life of a tablet and I think you have a winner.
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Hmmm. I don't know. I'm not really convinced. You can have full office apps for tablets, and you can do everything in the browsers on tablets that you can on PCs.
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Hmmm. I don't know. I'm not really convinced. You can have full office apps for tablets, and you can do everything in the browsers on tablets that you can on PCs.
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I have three of the major office suites for android installed on my tablet right now (Polaris, OfficeSuite 7,and Documents to Go) . They are NOT complete. There is a lot you cannot do, especially in the word processing software (rotate text, anyone?). What you can do is rather awkward. It's not quite the same.
As for browsers, I miss my chrome plug-ins. Firefox allows a subset of the plug-ins to work, but doesn't integrate well with the rest of Android.
I miss these things, but not enough to get out my laptop and power it on. My tablet is "good enough." If it ran a native Linux environment, however, I would not need to make these tradeoffs.
I do like your splashtop viewer idea, though. It's one I've toyed with. I just need to get around to installing Ubuntu on my home server. Not everyone has a PC that they can run 24/7, though.
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I was under the impression that Netflix moved to HTML5. Remember reading article upon article about how Linux users finally got Netflix. I've been running Linux for years, but up until recently, I havent been using my desktop because I had either an android phone or tablet; it was just more convenient than to run to my aging emachine and boot up slack or gentoo. Correct me if I'm wrong about the html5 thing though lol
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atermify said:
I was under the impression that Netflix moved to HTML5. Remember reading article upon article about how Linux users finally got Netflix. I've been running Linux for years, but up until recently, I havent been using my desktop because I had either an android phone or tablet; it was just more convenient than to run to my aging emachine and boot up slack or gentoo. Correct me if I'm wrong about the html5 thing though lol
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You're right on the html5 move for netflix but wrong on it working under linux. Still no support for linux because even though theyre moving/moved to html5, theres still other things it uses that arent available in linux browsers yet.
http://liliputing.com/2013/06/netfl...ows-8-1-still-nothing-official-for-linux.html

If you dont see the point in linux on the tf300t, try it out for an hour then reboot back into android and feel how restricted it feels. These devices have the capability of running a full desktop operating system so why not? the key thing here is multitasking (and the ability to move windows around the screen)
As for html5 it is really terrible on the tf300t, if you look on page 13 of the xubuntu development thread u'll find a working arm flash plugin taken from a chromebook, it work very well, youtube is even usable