Android is no panacea either. There are no Android tablets that are anywhere close to achieving parity with the iPad.
I used a Samsung Galaxy Tab S8+ with the Book Cover (the one with the track pad) and the Smart Folio (the one without a track pad).
The track pad was horrible. HORRIBLE. Ghost taps, misfired scrolls, and cheap feeling clicks. The track pad on the Magic Keyboard is as good as the standalone Magic Trackpad; this didn't even come close in quality.
The keyboard was fine, but keyboard shortcuts are implemented on a per app basis. This is fine until you want to use CTRL+L in Firefox to navigate to some URL only to discover that Firefox simply doesn't support keyboard shortcuts! Someone opened an issue for this two years ago too because, insanely enough, FF used to support them but simply dropped them because "reasons."
Then there was the cover. The Book Cover provides a Surface like kickstand that's adjustable. Great on a table; unusable on your legs. The Folio solves this by using a tented support, but this forces the tablet into a 25-ish degree tilt that I didn't find comfortable. There wasn't anything like the Magic Keyboard's excellent magic hinge (though maybe later model Galaxy Tabs have an equivalent).
All that said, Termux worked GREAT, and I think I would've gotten mileage out of using an external screen with DeX though I've heard it's lacking in that department. I badly wanted this setup to work, but there were too many quirks.
I used a Samsung Galaxy Tab S8+ with the Book Cover (the one with the track pad) and the Smart Folio (the one without a track pad).
The track pad was horrible. HORRIBLE. Ghost taps, misfired scrolls, and cheap feeling clicks. The track pad on the Magic Keyboard is as good as the standalone Magic Trackpad; this didn't even come close in quality.
The keyboard was fine, but keyboard shortcuts are implemented on a per app basis. This is fine until you want to use CTRL+L in Firefox to navigate to some URL only to discover that Firefox simply doesn't support keyboard shortcuts! Someone opened an issue for this two years ago too because, insanely enough, FF used to support them but simply dropped them because "reasons."
Then there was the cover. The Book Cover provides a Surface like kickstand that's adjustable. Great on a table; unusable on your legs. The Folio solves this by using a tented support, but this forces the tablet into a 25-ish degree tilt that I didn't find comfortable. There wasn't anything like the Magic Keyboard's excellent magic hinge (though maybe later model Galaxy Tabs have an equivalent).
All that said, Termux worked GREAT, and I think I would've gotten mileage out of using an external screen with DeX though I've heard it's lacking in that department. I badly wanted this setup to work, but there were too many quirks.
Also, battery life sucked.