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Originally Posted by ApK
A book on Windows will guide you effectively on many aspects of using a Surface tablet.
A book on Linux will guide on using a PC running just about any distro of Linux.
A book on Linux will do exactly squat in guiding you to use an Android device. Or a Kindle. Or a washing machine.
Someone with more than my Hello World experience with Linux and Android dev can correct me if I'm wrong, but a book on Linux development won't help any with Android development.
Because using Android is not using Linux in any more a meaningful sense than using a Kindle is.
Not sure why you're being obstinate on this point. I suspect you, like most others reading, understand the distinction perfectly well.
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A book on linux will not necessarily teach you how to use any distro. e.g. Ubuntu is very different from, say, Arch Linux or Gentoo. Or for that matter, ChromeOS, unless you feel that too is not "real linux"?
IN fact, ChromeOS is an excellent comparison, because it certainly does not resemble your average linux desktop very much at all... but it is based on Ubuntu,
with a stripped-down user interface.
As BWinmill points out, an experienced linux user will feel right at home on an Android device, as soon as thy install a shell prompt.
People can do some pretty interesting things once there... including using a chroot to run a linux distro with a package manager.