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How does Ubuntu Touch compare performance wise (battery and speed) and developer friendlyness with that other open OS Tizen, which uses Wayland instead of Mir f

How does Ubuntu Touch compare performance wise (battery and speed) and developer friendlyness with that other open OS Tizen, which uses Wayland instead of Mir for display operations? Does Ubuntu Touch have an Android compatibility layer? As Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler of Enlightenment fame) is involved and Samsung intends to run it on every device I think it might be more efficient. It also has a socalled 'Ultra Power Saving Mode' built in. The Tizen Samsung Z2 has been released for 70 euro in India last week and in Africa soon Tizen might be destined to take a significant portion of the mobile space. The development tools seem open enough, you could even run UE4 html5 games (that goes for both Ubuntu One and Tizen I assume) https://wiki.tizen.org/wiki/Game_development https://wiki.tizen.org/wiki/Game_development

pjmlp 10y ago
Tizen already went through so many reboots on their SDK stack that I wouldn't bother with it. It started with Meego adoption, then they brought the BADA OS SDK C++ (think Symbian C++ like experience), followed by re-writing everything in C, and offering a new C++ API on top of it when developers rebelled to go back to C. Also regarding the HTML5 stack, there are lots of dead mobile OSes that tried that route already. I doubt anyone in the markets where Tizen was released is bothered to target it instead of Android, unless Samsung is paying them.