Your phone already is
the computer.

Drag a window by its bar and drop it on an edge for half the screen, a corner for a quarter, the top for full. RigDesk then asks what should sit in the other half. The same gestures work on the windows RigDesk draws itself and on ordinary Android apps — those go through the system's own freeform mode, and when the permission is missing RigDesk says so instead of pretending it worked.

An x86 translator and a Wine layer run unmodified Windows binaries on an arm64 phone — no root, no server, nothing streamed. SumatraPDF and PuTTY open as ordinary RigDesk windows. .NET programs work once Mono is fetched, and it is fetched only if you ask. The layer is downloaded on first use, so the app you install stays small.

USB-C to HDMI or DisplayPort gives the best picture and zero lag; wireless casting works when the network can carry it, and RigDesk measures the link and tells you when it cannot. With an external screen connected, the phone becomes the trackpad and the keyboard. Without one, the whole desktop simply runs on the phone's own display.

RigDesk speaks X11 directly, so a Linux or x86 program does not land in a black rectangle — it opens as a real RigDesk window with a real title bar, resizing and keyboard focus. Sound has the same treatment: RigDesk registers itself as an audio card inside the layer and plays through Android on the other side.

On a phone the CPU and the GPU share one power rail, one memory bus and one heatsink, so RigDesk does not chase percentages — it watches for late frames and moves work to whichever side is idle. A game bar rides on top of a running game with frame generation, a performance mode and the temperature, on a keyboard shortcut or three fingers, three times. Frame generation is still being worked on: it runs, but it is not at the level it needs to be, and it is not for sale until it is.

A built-in browser with ad and tracker blocking, presenting itself as a desktop so sites hand you the Windows download rather than a Linux package. A file manager that asks for one folder at a time instead of the whole phone. Downloads land where the programs expect to find them.

The helper RigDesk needs ships inside the app, unmodified and Apache-licensed, and starts over Android's own wireless debugging. One button asks for everything that can be asked for at once, and the two steps Android refuses to automate are shown as steps, not hidden. Nothing leaves RigDesk without telling you first.

Glass, frosted or solid surfaces; twelve accent colours that go through the entire shell; motion profiles for how the whole thing moves; drawn wallpapers that cost not one byte of download; and tab animations, some free, some not — and the paid half is not for sale yet; the store opens in a few days. New in 0.75: scroll depth — the surface leans into the scroll and springs back.