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Quoth · 09-01-2020, 03:08 PM

I found ANY decent PDF reader terrible on Win10 touch tablet. So I got an Android tablet for PDFs. Foxit was one of the ones I tested on Win10.

Calibre is a proper WIMP GUI program. Despite what MS has tried to do since windows 8, you can design for keyboard & mouse or for touch. Trying to do both is a failure.

Similarly, a mouse and keyboard does work on Android, but it's ghastly.

Solution: Don't use a touch screen on MacOs, Windows or Linux. Touch screens are for iOS, Android, dedicated portals and gadgets. Not for desktop/laptop centric operating systems.

Similarly a setbox or TV with a big screen or not at normal more than one person viewing distance is controlled by a remote and needs bigger text. Android TV is almost designed for gaming, not people with broadcast TV, Satellite and Cable. It's a really bad port of Android.

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Quoth Still reading Posts: 14,145 Karma: 105211945 Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Ireland Device: All 4 Kinds: epub eink, Kindle, android eink, NxtPaper	I found ANY decent PDF reader terrible on Win10 touch tablet. So I got an Android tablet for PDFs. Foxit was one of the ones I tested on Win10. Calibre is a proper WIMP GUI program. Despite what MS has tried to do since windows 8, you can design for keyboard & mouse or for touch. Trying to do both is a failure. Similarly, a mouse and keyboard does work on Android, but it's ghastly. Solution: Don't use a touch screen on MacOs, Windows or Linux. Touch screens are for iOS, Android, dedicated portals and gadgets. Not for desktop/laptop centric operating systems. Similarly a setbox or TV with a big screen or not at normal more than one person viewing distance is controlled by a remote and needs bigger text. Android TV is almost designed for gaming, not people with broadcast TV, Satellite and Cable. It's a really bad port of Android. Last edited by Quoth; 09-01-2020 at 03:11 PM.