Am 20.03.2013 12:47, schrieb Timothy Murphy: > Ed Greshko wrote: > >> What is the advantage of running (K)Ubuntu or any other Linux distro on a >> smartphone or tablet? > > I would find it a great advantage to run the same, or similar, > OS's or DE's on laptop and phone, just for simplicity
it makes pretty no sense to use the same DE on a smartphone this would mean cripple it down for desktop users or have a unuseable one on the smartphone why do people not realize this? > For example, I would like to use KMail on my Samsung Galaxy S2, > collecting mail through IMAP from my server have fun with the desktop UI on a smartphone K9 for android is far better optimized for the use-case > I'd like to run Firefox on my phone, > just because that is what I am familiar with. it exists for Android and guess what: it does not have the same UI for reasons above > I find the sync-ing between phone and computer less than satisfactory. > If both presented the same interface it would be much better (for me). you BELIEVE it would be much better but ignore that any application on a smartphone needs to realize the envirnoment and come up with a different UI or it will be unuseable > I would consider going over to Ubuntu on laptop and phone > if I were reasonably sure that would simplify my life and you think you can use any application like OpenOffice with the existing user-interface on WHATEVER OS on a smartphone? how do you come to that conclusion?
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