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If your product relies on a 3rd-party to actually attract customers (and/or make a profit), your business model is flawed and you're doomed.
Are petrol stations doomed because they rely on automakers to bring in customers? Are game console makers* doomed because they rely on third-party developers to attract customers, and vice versa?
* Other than Nintendo, whose consoles rely heavily on the first-party lineup.
until you need to lug around either a heavy bulky laptop or spend a lot of money for a light one
I learned on Scroogled.com a couple weeks ago that 10" Windows laptops are back in production.
You are better of getting a cheap tablet or chromebook with a Data Plan and have your Linux running on a server where you can access for nearly anywhere.
If you're going to just use a Chromebook as an X11 or VNC terminal for a GNU/Linux VPS, how much does a data plan for that cost over the 48-month expected service life of a laptop? And how well does 3D graphics (e.g. Blender) tunnel over such a connection?
Do let us all know when you have solved basic issues like drivers for printers, scanners
The printer and scanner on my HP OfficeJet 4500 work well with Ubuntu, and any PC running Chrome can act as a proxy for printing from an Android device.
sync with mobile devices
True, GNU/Linux has had trouble communicating with Android over MTP. But Android Debug Bridge works, as does setting up a Samba share on your GNU/Linux PC and accessing it with Rhythm Software File Manager for Android.
Compile the open part of the OS for x64, and use dynamic recompilation to run the closed Google services parts and apps.
But how would your emulator obtain a lawfully made copy of "the closed Google services parts" and any applications that happen not to be available through Amazon Appstore, through F-Droid, or as a loose
a source/API explicitly named "insecure_rng"
urandom is the 'good enough for everything except cryptography' RNG.
The complaint, as I understand it, is that the meaning of the u in urandom isn't explicit enough.
When each neighborhood has a distinct boundary and limited entrance and exit points things like gang activity tend to fall off completely.
Cul-de-sacs, chokepoint streets that feed onto a sidewalkless artery, and other phenomena associated with suburban "street hierarchy" subdivisions are a fire hazard. They tend to be less friendly to pedestrians and cyclists, and it takes longer for emergency first responders to get in and out.
Alternative? Putting Win7 (or linux) on decent hardware [...] Lenovo sell laptops with Win7 as the default choice pre-installed.
That's nice to know. But what major brand sells affordable X11/Linux laptops?
"Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberrys!" -- Monty Python and the Holy Grail