On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 12:03:25 +0100 Hans <hans.ullr...@loop.de> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2018, 11:39:39 CET schrieb Michelle Konzack: > Must it be a tablet? Same size are netbooks (like my EEEPC), with > complete support of debian, a real keyboard and a light weight. > > Do not expect a tablet running debian as fast as Android, as Android > is very special software with very, very special code for the > hardware. > > Lots of functions are done by the hardware itself (I mean, the > computing does the hardware itself) and not down by Android, where in > debian this is all missing. > > Tablets are just gadgets (IMHO) and not be usable for real work. > However, if your work is "surfing, mailing, WhatsApp and playing > multimedia", then tablets are fine. If you need more, IMHO a netbook > is more senseful. > > Just my opinion..... Me too. But I think netbooks are a thing of the past, at least at low cost, the tablets have displaced them. I've been looking for a replacement for my Acer Aspire One for some years. I'm a difficult customer in that I want at least two real USB ports and if at all possible, wired Ethernet. I need a computer: if I wanted a toy, I'd buy a smartphone. I've just bought the nearest thing I could find, which is significantly bigger but still much smaller than a 'real' laptop. Acer again, 11.6" screen instead of 9" (I think the 9" displays all go into tablets) and with a couple of USB ports AND wired Ethernet. Win10, but that's no problem. The Aspire came with Linpus, which was a cut-down version of Fedora. It was missing iptables kernel modules, and I didn't fancy compiling a kernel for exotic hardware, but I found Ubuntu Remix would work. Eventually I lost patience with that and tried straight Debian, which pretty well worked, which I hadn't expected. I have played with a pocket-sized tablet, which does an excellent job of replacing an old out-of-support sat-nav. But though I can install MariaDB and a web server with PHP, they won't run for more than a few minutes. It's probably easily fixable, but there's no supported way to get any real control of the thing. I would have to use some random hacker's malware to do that, which I don't find acceptable. I don't feel that the thing actually belongs to me, I'm just renting it from Google, and doing with it whatever Google generously permits me to do. -- Joe
