If you want to write things like words and sentences, doing it on mobile phones or tablets sucks. Bluetooth keyboards and mice and their intermittent connections to phones and tablets also suck.

The same holds true for programming. Writing code on phones and tablets suck. What sucks even more is that Android's primary programming language is Java, yet it's harder to develop and run Java code in Android than it is to write Perl, Python, JavaScript and Ruby.

I even wrote C++ on an Android tablet. It was a pain in the ass, but I did it. Those languages that aren't Java are "easier," but the experience remains poor.

Even though I use a few Google Chrome "apps" for programming-like tasks (Secure Shell, which is pretty good; and Text, which is super-rudimentary), even a Chromebook is better than a tablet or phone.

Right now my laptop is so nice, I hate using my desktop computer at the office. Now it's screen seems blurry (because it is), and I hate the standard-issue Lenovo keyboard. That's a backwards way of saying that I like a nice laptop keyboard. It has to "click" a bit, meaning it can't be too mushy.

I can certainly see (and am seeing) laptops that incorporate tablet/phone hardware and software. I would absolutely welcome the "intents" present in Android apps that allow you to easily share content from one app to another. Windows now has an app store, though most of what's in it is shit. (I do like the Fitbit app for Windows, though.)

Tangents be dammed. To make things with words, you need a proper keyboard.

Installing node.js in Fedora is no problem. You just run sudo dnf install node, and you're off to the JavaScript-in-the-console races. But it's slightly more complicated in Debian and Ubuntu.

Since there's an old amateur radio package called node for communicating on packet radio nodes, Debian and Ubuntu use the package name (and shell command) nodejs. So you would run nodejs when you would normally run node.

But you don't have to do this. And you don't have to resort to any Linux/Unix tomfoolery either.

Both Debian and Ubuntu have a package called nodejs-legacy that makes the symlink for you. Then you can run node by typing node in the console.

Since it looks like there is no node for amateur radio in Debian Sid or Experimental, I'm thinking that the node-vs-node.js problem will go away at some point in the near future -- when Debian declares its next release stable, and in turn when Ubuntu bases its future releases on versions of Debian that have "re-resolved" the issue. (Since I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 in the Windows Subsystem for Linux, this hasn't happened yet.)

Until then:

$ sudo apt install nodejs nodejs-legacy