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Is a tablet that doubles as a USB-C second laptop display a (FOSS) thing? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 weeks ago by j4k3@lemmy.world to c/android@lemmy.ml

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Really only interested in something like Graphene, Lineage, or a Linux mobile tablet that can work with a typical Linux distro and display over USB-C. It is just a casual conversational ask. Maybe one of y'all has tried or knows the answer. I won't use anything that runs google stuff or is a pain to load a custom ROM.

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[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Man, 100% agreed. Devs didn't think about EOL at the time, but hopefully someone will implement this at some point because environmentalism has been growing bigger than ever.

Surprisingly, even for interactive screen-mirroring, there is still generally only scrcpy—which is even used by giants like SideQuest for Meta Quest VR headsets (since they're Droids). Previously there was Vysor.io, but that's closed-source and for-profit.

Anyway, this totally reminded me that I once really tried to look into this but found that the only solution in the entire known English-speaking world for this is currently the closed-source, freemium Spacedesk + a rooted tablet. I gave up because at the time I didn't wanna try to root the tablet due to the mandatory factory reset, but I eventually caved in to install Kotatsu lol. Haven't retried...