UT Tablet on stand

UT Tablet on stand
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I have bought a new stand for our tablets - a Fellowes I-Spire plastic
stand for iPad [1]. It is now very cheap and available everywhere (the
[1] has it for too big amount of money, just search for other sellers
to see how cheap it actually is). I think that iPad users found it to
be too ugly for their devices so only a few people actually got it.
Yes, its white-gray plastics with some transparent parts and its shape
makes it look as a thing from dark past (aesthetically it fits to mid
1990s I think).

Its usability is a different story: it is massive and thus very stable.
Even a much wider devices that the original iPad are held well her. It
also elevates the device to the comfortable height. I actually throw
away (well, re-purposed as picture stands and so) all other tablet
stands which I have had at home.

So now I have a relatively useful and reasonable modern low-power
workstation - the BQ Aquaris M10 FHD tablet with a (cheap) HP Bluetooth
keyboard (the SK-9017 model) and the Lenovo Bluetooth Laser Mouse. It
is not the preferred solution (I have a selection of better machines
here) but there are cases when it is handy (on the home office I
sometimes need to work from a different room then my wife; our wired
Ethernet is in one room only so I have to move to an unequipped room
and use this thing - or a some laptop- on WiFi).

The Ubuntu Touch behaves more like the Android than the actual Linux
desktop. But things like an e-mail, a www (including audio conferences
- I have had no luck with the camera in the Morph browser), a text
editor, a compiler, a GNU Octave and other tools work well here. Now
there is also a VNC client so I can control my main machine (the POWER9
box) from here. In theory, I can run OpenOffice locally but I don't
have good experience with running complex GUI programs on the Ubuntu
Touch's XMir server (it's a X11 compatibility layer for the Mir display
server which it still uses).

The easiest way to write texts (LaTeX sources, programs and so) is use
of the Seabass2 text editor (an Ubuntu Touch native app with syntax
highlighting and other functionalities) and the to compile/process them
in the Linux container (with less or more complete Debian install).
Simpler GUI apps (which use Gtk+-2 and -3 and some newer Qt) usually
also work very well (through the XMir, of course).

It is not ideal but it was much worse before some time...

References:

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Fellowes-I-Spire-Tablet-Stand-9311301/dp/B00BXF5GKK