Samsung DEX Is Awesome! - Gaming,Emulation,Work and Linux On Dex

Using Samsung's Dex Mode to Play Games and Run Emulators

Just don't think we can go fullscreen with it inside of Dex mode but it's perfectly playable like this and it works great with the controller unfortunately pub G mobile doesn't natively support controllers so you'll kind of be stuck either using a mapping app or keyboard and mouse. The WASD Keys do move your character around but you have to use your mouse to aim and shoot at the same time. I really hope that sometime down the road they add full keyboard and mouse support and gamepad support but until then it's a little cumbersome to play emulation on Dex and the Galaxy S 10 is absolutely amazing.

This is the redream emulator, a Dreamcast emulator you can download free on the Google Play Store and I can go fullscreen with it. I just left it in windowed mode but overall every emulator that I tested actually works really well on this setup especially index mode either windowed or full screen. This is PSP running God of War Chains of Olympus at 3x resolution if you're trying to play this exact game here on let's say the galaxy s 8 or the Tab S4 with the Snapdragon 835 you might want to drop it down the 2x resolution but overall it should work really well on those devices also retroarch also functions really well inside a Dex mode. Unfortunately I have to resize the window manually I don't have the option to go fullscreen but here's some Sega Saturn emulation running at full speed and finally on the emulation side of things this is the dolphin emulator running a few GameCube games. The Snapdragon in 55 actually handles dolphin really well.

This is Super Smash Bros. and then we'll move over to some so-cal-vicci so Dex can actually turn your phone into a little emulation slash gaming console that you can plug right into your TV I absolutely love this setup here. So before in this video there's one last thing I want to show you and it's probably my favorite part about running Dex on Samsung devices we have the ability to easily run Linux on Dex basically this is Container Creator it's in beta right now you can download their 16.04 image this is Ubuntu but remember it's still running on an ARM chip so some apps that you might normally use on an x86 PC won't be compatible I'm gonna click run it's gonna boot me right into the gnome desktop.

So the original idea for having Linux on Dex was to create C++ and JavaScript projects right in Ubuntu on an arm device well it's got to be Samsung running Dex you can easily manage your servers using your favorite CLI but nothing here is really stopping us from using this as an all-in-one desktop. From terminal you could run a sudo apt-get install and I've already done that so I've installed here and I've also installed open arena go to applications graphics I have installed the full photo editing suite right here.

You can install Libre Office if you really want to I'm gonna close this down I have also installed where's my games open arena. This is basically quake3 running in Linux on Dex so I'll just go to demos and I really haven't messed around with it much. I was able to play through a game but this is kind of a little benchmark and it runs really smooth there are some graphical glitches in the demo but I did not see these in real gameplay.

I'm not sure if the demo file is corrupt or what's going on here you have a full browser Chromium or Firefox whatever you choose to use good applications utilities system monitor like I said we can use all eight gigs because this is the S10 with eight gigs built-in it also has 2.5 gigabytes of swap preset up. You can monitor all your CPU cores from here you can just browse the web one thing I did was run a quick octane benchmark and it was actually surprised to see how well this performed now this is just a basic online JavaScript benchmark it's really not giving us that much information but I've run this on so many devices I can kind of get a feel for how this thing's gonna perform.

Just by this score here so that's pretty much it for this video guys I really appreciate you watching. I just wanted to give you a look at Samsung Dex if you already own a Galaxy S8 or up you can go ahead and give this a try I'll leave a link to the same adapter I'm using in the description I picked this up for $15 on Amazon but you can go as high as 50 bucks if you really want to but this one works just fine. Two USB 3.0 ports Ethernet SD card slot HDMI and USB type-c and if you have any questions or if there's anything else you want to see running inside of Samsung Dex just let me know in the comments below.

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