On 10/28/2014 11:26 AM, "Albert, Oszkó" wrote:
I've been thinking for a while on buying a not too expenxsive tablet - 200-300 $ - and putting some linux on it. Android is not my friend. I have a Samsung Galay Tab 2 which works fine, but Android could not get close to my heart.
From the POV of living inside a browser -- be it Firefox or Chrome -- I don't see anything to recommend Linux over Android for a 10/11/12"
I was about to get a kindle when ... Yes, the smartphones are great cos they are so 'in your pocket'. I think the app I use most is the calculator to do HEX=>DEC conversion for IP addresses. The calculator is about the same size as my cell phone and the cell phone is always charged. Second most useful app is unit conversion for recipes in the kitchen. Oh, and its a phone and contact manager, but so what? ... I got a deal on a Samsung tablet. Well that could do a lot more than the phone did. Great deal. 10"/$300. Yes I use it for reading books, that's probably the #1 app, since that was the justification for the purchase, but the other uses are pretty close and much more comprehensive and increasing as I become more familiar with them. Email for android is, as far as I can tell, broken because the developers think in terms of a phone not the extra screen real estate of a decent tablet. Too much obsession with faces and the like and not enough with 'dimensionality' and maximizing the amount of information. tablet. I can see a few things to recommend the tablet over a Desktop; most notably listening to podcasts sitting in a comfortable chair with earpods, a cat on your lap and your favourite drink. But maybe that holds for phones and smaller tablets as well. The only reason I can see for a smaller tablet is that it will fit in your coat or jacket pocket. But at that point, why not get a ginourmous phone? The issue really is the apps and not the OS. The Android vs iOS war is pointless, its about the hardware, which is always a race to the future, and the applications. If you don't need the bleeding edge hardware (heck, the S III does NFC nicely thank you, and we have it widespread since 2011). I'm starting to do a bit of 'development' on the tablet but think that it would be impossible on a phone: documentation, slide decks for presentations, mindmaps. The overall point is that there 'personality' of a tablet is very different from that of a phone. Both my phone (well phones actually) and my tablet run Android, bit 4.4.2, but the way I use them is very different and is really a function of the screen real estate. The tablet is almost but not quite a 'laptop without a keyboard' (except when I do have the bluetooth keyboard when its very like a laptop). The phone is probably as powerful (cpu memory) as my desktop, but its still a phone (and a calculator and voice recorder) but not really a computer. The tablet *is* a computer and a e-book reader (which my laptop never was). Converting the tablet to Suse or similar would cripple its utility for me. Suse simply does not have the many of the apps I use occasionally, well often enough. Yes Thunderbird, but I've already got Firefox, so what? http://linuxonandroid.org Oh, and the big screen of the tablet holds a large clock that I can see in bed without my glasses. The phone simply doesn't have a big enough screen for that. -- The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive. John Sladek -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org