Originally Posted by
ProleOnParole
An Android phone can do most of what a laptop does, and should be fine as a short-term replacement. Otherwise, what's your budget? If money is not an issue, I'd check out either the
LG Gram or the
Asus Zenbook UX3xx.
For Linux compatibility avoid nVidia GPUs (usually not present in the "thin and light" segment anyway), other than that it should work fine; you might not be able to get the same battery life though.
I was thinking of using an android phone as a backup, but there are two issues:
1. Screen size is way too small to allow any productive work. This could probably be solved by using an Android sub 10" tablet instead of a phone.
2. Getting a proper Linux OS installed side-by-side to Android seems like a risky affair.
Have you tried this? is the android device running some dual-boot loader which allows to select between Android or the Linux distro?.
Thanks