The advertised features I so wanted to use were a wish list.

At least Linux enabled me to communicate with the software developer.

Android worked well for a while but has now morphed into a nightmare of contradictions]*

*delete if in contradiction to the rules I signed up to.

Enough of that ancient history.

I now live in a bus in BOP - the LUG up here appears to have died from natural causes - I hope one day to the same.

While I was a busy stay at home Dad I struggled at times with some of the more technical command line actions to get stuff to work.

At 76 it will be interesting to see how I get on, and so some one on one support would be good and I am more than willing to pay for. 

I live in Papamoa, I have met an elusive geek who is developing some Linux based Program on a Mac? Who may fill that gap, but ultra focused online, no cell phone etc etc. We contact thru random meeting and messages 'from the universe'

In my bus I am gradually putting together a small box SS PC from HungryPC with a micro qwerty keyboard, at the same time as making physical alterations to accommodate this.

I am dyslexic obsessive Writer of course and since losing 95% eyesight in my leading eye I find I can no longer use qwerty but have been able to use abcde keypad on phone and Tablet. The only abcde key pad I can find available in touch screen which I am told can be 'taught' to work on the Linux Mint I have on my machine.

But on Tablet this abcde keypad is extremely unstable - vital features disappear and down loading it again results in different layouts and features on different machines but it is not Android exclusive!

All laptops with physical and touch screen keypads I have tried won't accept abcde lay out.

Why in this day and age qwerty still exists is a mystery to me.

I hope I can convince my 'geek' of abcde keypad importance (this was easier to achieve back in the day, maybe with current Linux Mint (or similar) nowadays

Till then I might be stuck with writing on my phone and emailing it to my main machine to put it into LibreOffice to email to my Editor or other writer supports.

Cheers, I hope I can get some traction with this, as complex submissions and my writing in both English & Te Reo Maori is becoming more difficult with advancing technology - not easier

Cheers Kevf