Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice
by monocasa on Thursday November 18, 2021 @12:23PM
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The GPD laptops fill that space for me now. My GPD Pocket literally fits in some of my pockets, is a regular x86 machine. Came with Windows 10, but I'm running Mint on it.
Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice
by Tijdreiziger on Thursday November 18, 2021 @11:36AM
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The modern equivalent is a tablet with its corresponding type cover.
Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice
by nivenkos on Thursday November 18, 2021 @11:52AM
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AFAIK I can't really run Jupyter notebooks, R, LaTeX and Rust on a tablet though. Perhaps the JingPad.
Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice
by sudosysgen on Thursday November 18, 2021 @12:08PM
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You can on any Android tablet that allows root. You can run an X server via Termux and get a full graphical Linux environment. That will be necessary for Rust.
R, JupyterNotebooks and LaTeX can be done without root.
Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice
by candiodari on Friday November 19, 2021 @01:02PM
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You can on any tablet that supports webassembly:
https://jupyterlite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/_static/lab/ind...
I used an Acer Aspire One when travelling through Germany as a student (to research jobs and conferences) - and it was amazing being able to program and write papers on such a small device.
Reading about the hardware issues reminds me a lot of the ZX Spectrum reviews (especially the keyboard!) - keeping a low price means a lot of compromises unfortunately.