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Re:Rant: Year of Linux on the Desktop (2022) by galangalalgol on Sunday January 01, 2023 @12:40PM (#34208582)
People don't author papers on mobile yet do they? I mean, an android tablet with a mouse and keyboard should be fine for that given webapps, but I just don't know people who have that workflow. And itbis a biased sampling because of internet pricing, but on planes as I look around I mostly see windows or mac laptops for actual work. A few adults will have tablets, but mostly kids. Adults mostly have a phone reading a book or watching a movie.

At work it seems like developers don't care what the machine they are sitting at is as long as it has ssh and vscode with remote plugin and of course a browser.

Some domain specific tools don't work so well remotely and those people have whatever that software requires, sometimes as a VM but often on metal with a beefy workstation.

For generic office productivity I still see people using Microsoft.

Re:Rant: Year of Linux on the Desktop (2022) by semi-extrinsic on Sunday January 01, 2023 @02:45PM (#34210043)
Overleaf works well for writing papers on any tablet, hell it's even usable in a pinch on my phone.
Re:Rant: Year of Linux on the Desktop (2022) by morjom on Monday January 02, 2023 @09:45AM (#34218376)
I think people author papers on MacBooks at this point more than Windows, but I think my anti-apple bias is doing a number on this one.