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?