Google is looking to offer a native Terminal app for Android, possibly with Android 16. The Terminal app will allow installation of a Linux VM with full GUI and GPU acceleration along with other sysadmin features including disk resizing, port forwarding, and partition recovery. This is an extension of Google's earlier project of allowing Chrome OS to run on Android using the Android Virtualization Framework.
Google gave up on their version of DeX or whatever? Good
I don’t think so. I think they are trying to make android more suitable for “desktop” usage, similar to chrome os.
By providing a gui for larger screens (Android 15) and virtualization (Android 16) they are significantly expanding what android can do.