How does Android stack up as a desktop operating system?

Last week, I reviewed ChromeOS from a desktop environment perspective as part of my “Linux Desktop-a-Week” series (which, really, has become less of a weekly thing and more of a “Desktop-Every-Few-Weeks-Or-So” thing. But I’m sticking to my original title. Because I’m stubborn).

This “week,” I am spending time with another Linux desktop environment that isn’t exactly traditional. This week, I’m using Android.

There are a lot of things I could say about Android as a platform. I could talk market share or application selection, diversity of hardware or maturity of the SDK. But I’m not going to touch on any of that, at least not in this article. Instead, I am going to focus strictly on Android as a desktop environment.