Comment on I installed Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and it's my new favorite way of computing
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 6 days agoYou have COMPLETELY misread my comments and missed the point.
My point was that there are plenty of other better devices suited to these tasks than a little obscure laptop with a crappy keyboard, such as an iPad or Android tablet or eink tablet, or even a phone. My argument wasn’t “hurr durr doing nothing would be better”.
My opinion is “valid in this context” because I’ve spent countless hours RDPd in to various machines and servers fixing issues and making changes that saved literal millions of dollars at a time, and the last thing I’ve wanted in those situations was ma worse device to do it on simply because it’s “different”.
brot@feddit.org 6 days ago
Mobile Apps really are really lacking in terms of usability. There really is a use case for a real laptop experience
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 6 days ago
For reading and writing like the OP talks about?
brot@feddit.org 5 days ago
Yes - I was surprised recently how useless the text selection and editing features on Android are. I had to edit a bigger document (like 70 pages) where I had to move some paragraphs, delete some and so on. No problem on a desktop even on a smaller screen, but Android was surprisingly unusable
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 5 days ago
I’ve had no problem doing that on Android. Cut and paste work just fine.