I've used Android devices for over a decade now, including two tablets which were largely daily drivers. Android makes a lousy desktop, and the issues go far d

I've used Android devices for over a decade now, including two tablets which were largely daily drivers. Android makes a lousy desktop, and the issues go far deeper than windowing. The single application which Does Not Precisely Suck on Android is Termux. It, the wealth of directly-packaged software, and the wider universe available through other packaging tools (e.g., pip, npn, rpm, ppm, etc.), scripting and programming tools, etc., are what turns Android from a toy to a Real Operating System. But even Termux is horribly handicapped by Android: - Filesystem permissions are generally not available, nor is most of the filesystem. - Keyboard support within and between apps is horrible and inconsistent. Three specific examples: 1) Firefox/Android (a/k/a Fennic Fox) lacks the keyboard shortcuts of desktop Firefox, a longstanding bug Mozilla seem to have no interest in addressing. 2) In Readability, when editing tags, the backspace/delete key does not work, rather one must select and replace text to correct misspellings. 3) In Neoreader (the Onyx BOOX ebook reader) typing text into the search dialogue is wonky in ways I don't specifically recall though it simply shouldn't break that way. - Android memory management (courtesy the JVM AFAIU) will reap apps without warning. Some manage this reasonably well, many do not. - There's absolutely abysmal inter-app exchange through copy/paste. Free-form windowing is good and fine so far as it goes, but Android needs one hell of a lot more done to it before it's a reasonable desktop / laptop replacement. I still see tablets as most useful for reading text (and perhaps watching videos), and best suited at little else. I'd still recommend a full-featured laptop or notebook for Real Work.