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0 pointshollerith12y ago0 comments

You have not explained how Android is relevant to a conversation about desktop Linux.

>Smart phones, tablets and other mobile devices is the future for Linux and computing in general.

Even if that is true, it does not automatically make Android relevant to a conversation about desktop Linux.

Will you concede that at the current time, essentially no one uses Android as desktop OS?

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What is a desktop but a tablet or smartphone with a keyboard and mouse? It wasn't long ago that "Desktop" meant a rarely moved laptop or a tower attached to a big monitor and some peripherals, so we're not used to thinking of it in more abstract terms. This is changing as the traditional desktop--a computer you set on a surface and do work on--becomes something more modular and tablet-like.

hollerithOP12y ago

>What is a desktop but a tablet or smartphone with a keyboard and mouse?

Hardly anyone uses Android with a keyboard and mouse (for good reason).

You might believe that that will change, and that is a reasonable conversation to have, but it does not make it unreasonable or silly to have a conversation about desktop Linux that ignores Android.

(When the person I replied to wrote, "what kind of bizarro world is this where Android doesn't exist?" he implied that such a conversation is unreasonable or silly.)

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