Thread: Anki for N900?
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Originally Posted by HRZ View Post
Ok, do you really advise an install of Easy Debian just to run Anki? And going through with that procedure/settings? Does it run well? Can I use Easy Debian to run other Linux apps , like Open Office and if so do they run smoothly

I ask because I haven't a clue as to how to use a Linux OS (this phone was my first chance of familiarizing myself a bit with commands, etc.
Hi,

well, Anki runs just about perfect - as far as I can see everything works as designed but two things (that actually are one thing)
- the physical keyboard of the phone doesn't work with Anki run directly (at all)
- the physical keyboard sometimes stops working under EasyDeb.(but there are good on-screen ones)

So basically, I was and very much am ok, to spend 2,5 Gb on that one awesome programme, as the limitation of 32gb + card space isn't much a problem for me. (Only my root 256mb are constantly full - due to other stuff)

OpenOffice does work, but it takes ages to load, and isn't very responsive, so I use it only for converting the doc and docx people send me, because they don't get, that I neither have, nor want M$ Office on my cell.

The GIMP works as well, didn't use it much...

So pretty much, as far as I am concerned, I just really wanted Anki and LaTex, and only having 25gb for random stuff is okay for me, because I can learn my crap (which I have to) using LaTex (which I quite like) on my cell ANYWHERE I want + I can edit (and add... ) my cards when I'm on the train or eating someplace + the sync works extremely well. (both Anki directly from within Maemo and Anki from within Debian, use the same storage file, so they remember my learned cards and it is really easy to sync using wlan to get to the new cards I make on my pc.)

So in summary:
- it does take a while to get it going
- it does take up a large amount of space
+ it does so on a device where the space used isn't (that) critical
+ once it works, it works extremely well
+ LaTex (which is central for scientific stuff + makes formating really easy) works superbly (if you always start with "\tiny")

And quite frankly, I've been trying to get myself to use linux, but it just never seemed to compare to my usage on a pc, but for a mobile device it is soooooooooo sweet, to be abled to change anything you pretty much want using google + a notepad + the console