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Calling any phone, tablet, or Chromebook "Linux" is only true in the strictest sense that they us a Linux kernel. Everything that is the Linux Desktop experienc
by AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y ago
Calling any phone, tablet, or Chromebook "Linux" is only true in the strictest sense that they us a Linux kernel. Everything that is the Linux Desktop experience was scrapped and replaced.
- thekyle 6y agoWell Chrome OS at least can install any Debian app. They work pretty well too and are the closest thing Chrome OS has to native desktop apps.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 6y agoFor that matter, so can Windows these days. Somehow I don't think that's what any "Linux on the Desktop" people had in mind.
- chao- 6y agoI completely agree, but it is worth pointing out that even "the desktop" looks different from how it did when the phrase originated, to say nothing of the digital tools and spaces that are not desktops. As a daily user of Linux desktops for over a decade (and known to be stick-in-the-mud about my desktop experience), even I have awoken to some shifts in my perspective and expectations, but only in an after-the-fact manner.
- dheera 6y ago> Everything that is the Linux Desktop experience was scrapped and replaced. That's true of every Linux distro as well. Ubuntu pretty much scrapped all the shitty looking window managers of RedHat (FWHM, FWHM95, AfterStep, etc.) and replaced it with another one that looks nice but has shitty usability. Building a good looking and functional window manager on top of a Linux kernel still is a form of Linux in some sense.
- mohaine 6y agoTrue in the strictest sense is test best kind of true.