This is just a Linux VM just like th Crostini in ChromeOS, so I’d expect similar 40%+ performance loss compares to for example proot container through Termux running natively.

The only thing this could probably offer would be giving you better OS GUI Integration into Android, like Crostini on a ChromeOS device. But if that is needed you might as well just use an Android port or an Android equivalent of your Linux software anyway, it’s not like you’d ever want to run Matlab, GIMP or OpenFOAM on your Android phone with its tiny screen anyway LMAO

Awwww darn as a fellow languages and linguistics enthusiast I feel your pain too XD

I found it helpful if some of the languages you focus on happens to be written in entirely different writing systems :p

Which is awesome, but then it shouldn’t cost this much.

Unless if it’s made of some of the actually ultra high performance plastics, like maybe polycarbonate or carbon fiber reenforced PA-6/PPA for example, but I highly doubt that’s the case

Same!!! Or niche fields of studies, although there’s a lot less serious ones of that kind lol

Sony Xperia 1 series is amazing, fully open bootloader, takes less than a minute to root, no artificial restriction from rooting with AOSP-like ROM, and still have both SD card and headphone jack but still flagship specs of the respective release year of each recent model lol

I do. The only reason I don’t want any of the current foldable phone is because they are still too small to be a proper “tablet but fits pocket when folded”.

With a tri-fold system it could easily have a main screen size beyond 10", and then it’s finally getting into proper tablet sizes.