My request to ubuntu developer team

[Art Edwards]

On 11/21/2011 07:40 PM, Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 18:05 -0700, Craig White wrote:
>> On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 14:47 -0800, Ernest Doub wrote:
>>
>>> Show me ~any~ handheld device [using the above definition] currently
>>> in distribution that has the same speed and productivity capabilities
>>> as the desktop models currently in distribution.  You might be able to
>>> make a case [it would still be a major stretch] if you chose an
>>> absolute bottom end desktop box and the most bleeding edge handheld
>>> but not if you are comparing averages.
>>> The desktop will have the advantage in productivity until there is a
>>> major technological breakthrough requiring at least an order of
>>> magnitude reduction in "real estate" required for a given level of
>>> computing power.
>> ----
>> OK - this is actually quite easy.
>>
>> Quad core Tegra 3 processor
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> forgot the link  ;-(
>
> http://asustransformerprime.net/asus-transformer-prime/
>
>
So I looked at the link, and it doesn't answer the question. It is a
quad-core running at 2.0 GHz. This is ~2003 desktop performance, but
wait.. there is a whole GB of memory, and 16 GB of internal storage,
just like my USB stick! I think we are not defining productivity
consistently. I use my desktop (and laptop) to do large, scientific
calculations. I also use it to write papers for journals. I can also
browse the web and show videos. This is what I mean by productivity.
There is no tablet that comes close to doing all of those things, so
they fall under the toy category for me. So now Ubuntu puts a toy
interface on their desktop. This is why so much of this argument is so
specious. The Unity interface (and gnome-3 as well) *is* going for the
newbie market at the expense of the established linux community. I don't
buy the argument that they are changing because of the windoze patents.
They are now encroaching on the Apple look and feel. Are you saying it
is better to slime off of one than the other? Are you saying that Apple
will be more forgiving than Microsoft? Really? Also, I don't buy that
gnome 2 was big and unwieldy and gnome 3 won't be. If so, what aren't
they doing that they used to? What features will be missing? If they
have the same features, but the software organization is better, that
doesn't speak to the new look. It is only to make desktops look like
tablets, and this, at the loss of transparency. Just try to find things
as easily on unity or gnome 3 desktop as on the gnome 2 desktop.

Just to let you know that I will be embracing change. I'm going to look
at gentoo, and at Debian. I'm hopeful that these will be the last refuge
of the original linux community.
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