I do wish iPad had something to push me over to replace my laptop for that use case, but I’m too used to windowed environment.
I have mine bound to esc since I use vim as my main editor, but ctrl is also an option.
As for the soft keyboard, at least in termius this is remappable in the settings (I think blink also)
I expect this to improve, and I've not tried to build any complex software on it (yet).
I am basically fed up with my iPad, looking to sell it and buy an Android with termux.
Why would you need a table for those things? Isn't a dektop/laptop optimized for those kind of things anyway?
Or you just want to hook some 11" iPad to a monitor and a keyboard, and just use it as a desktop unit?
Heck, maybe it would be interesting to work on touchscreen software on a touchscreen computer in a touch oriented IDE or editor, no?
Well, a sports car and a truck, and a Mini Cooper and an 18-wheeler are all road vehicles too.
The difference is tradeoffs, optimization, cost, user experience, and so on.
The iPad could indeed get the ability to be used as a Mac (hook cable to hub, perhaps monitor, full macOS etc). It would still not exactly be optimized for that, it would need all the extra stuff, but it would work.
A Macbook with a touch screen not so much. It would either have to be detachable (like some PC models), which comes with certain tradeoffs, limits on construction, materials, battery life, thinness (as the screen would need to be able to work autonomously, thus have the CPU and everything), etc.
Or it could be a laptop with a touch screen (again, like some other PC laptop models), which would give an unatural, unergonomic experience.
>Heck, maybe it would be interesting to work on touchscreen software on a touchscreen computer in a touch oriented IDE or editor, no?
Based on our experience with laptops that have that, not that interesting in the end. There's a reason we don't see people using those PC laptops that have that using them for the touch screen in the wild, and that they haven't really caught on.
I think touch computers had enormous potential that has mostly been permanently squandered by making them into entertainment devices for users — not owners, and certainly not operators. The product barely even really belongs to you from that perspective.
This is something that Stallman and the Free Software movement got absolutely bang-on: proprietary software seeks to control its users and prevent them from truly owning and operating their computers. It’s almost impossible to overstate how important free computing is, and how much more important it will become in the future if we don’t secure our access to it.