Dex for Mac Discontinued!?! Noooo....

[KrisKrunch]

What are my options, besides switching to Windows?

Finally upgraded to my 6th Galaxy, the 256 GB S21 Ultra! 

Upgraded Dex on my Mac, so I could finally take advantage of wireless Dex.... and saw a terrible notification that it's getting discontinued on Mac in a couple of months!! 

Man. I really love Dex for so many reasons... It's the most convenient way to interface with the phone when I'm at my work station. So I figured out how to live without the SD-Card expansion slot... and now Dex is chopped... What's getting cut next?

Anyway. Are there work arounds to this, so I can continue to interface with my phone in this manner?

[user365170tdJ15]

Use a virtual machine with a Windows image.
My husband runs Dex on a Windows image, using VirtualBox on openSuse Linux.

[KrisKrunch]

@user365170tdJ15 How much does this impact the performance of his system? 

I wish there was some sort of native replacement / workaround.

[user365170tdJ15]

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Zero impact, based on human perception.
We work for a software company who leases computers for our developers - all those computers are cloud-based virtual machines (maybe heard of Amazon EC2?).

[microwin13]

Would a Wineskin program work?

[Anonymous]

Your best option is to use only dex

[user365170tdJ15]

If Dex will no longer be available on Mac, how does one "use only Dex", unless you go out and buy a desktop or laptop to run Windows?

[Anonymous]

Connect your phone to your monitor
Done. 👍
Everything in one place

[user365170tdJ15]

.. Interesting. What about using desktop keyboard too? KB and monitor aren't connected ?

[Anonymous]

Use screen as TouchPad
Keyboard pops up
Or
Bluetooth keyboard and mouse