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For Linux users, we look for credible source for something as important as Operating Systems. Usually from known entity or open source community. It would be gr
by hvaoc 6y ago
For Linux users, we look for credible source for something as important as Operating Systems. Usually from known entity or open source community. It would be great if you can clarify.
Also since it is just getting started, you would be better off not using iPad, Apple kind of words. Instead use neutral terms like Linux OS optimized for Tablets, before it is too late.
Also heavy influence of Apple Marketing on your preview video, it would serve you well if you have the actual working copy of the OS on a tablet shown as demo as well. Hope you are making that video as well.
- echelon 6y agoI'm scratching my head as to why they mentioned "iPad" as well. Android is already a Linux tablet OS. It's like they ignored the elephant in the room. Ubuntu also runs on tablets. (edit: this is based in Ubuntu!) Besides that point, Apple is pretty much the opposite of free computing. It's a gross comparison. Edit: Looking at their Reddit timeline, it appears as though they've made a lot of progress in a few short months, so I applaud that. I just wish people would stop trying to copy Apple at everything. It's a turn off.
- monsieurbanana 6y ago> Besides that point, Apple is pretty much the opposite of free computing. It's a gross comparison. Isn't that what they said? They stated that one of the reasons to create a new OS is that Apple is a closed platform. You can't blame them to go further than that in a marketing video, it's not like they're posting anonymous comments on an internet forum.
- mattdeboard 6y agoI wouldn’t have even bothered to click the link if they hadn’t used the word ipad.
- emteycz 6y agoWhat's elephant for you is a fly for most others. My grandmother is afraid of things like Ubuntu.
- hindsightbias 6y ago> turn off Speaking as a hacker or a consumer? “Apple's domination of the global tablet market continued in the third quarter of 2020, according to market research firm Canalys, with iPad shipments seeing an estimated 47% year-over-year growth rate thanks to coronavirus trends.” The market is speaking, and consumers don’t care about what the OS is. They never have, and never will. https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/11/12/apple-extends-massive-lead-in-global-tablet-market-during-q3 https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/11/12/apple-extends-mas...
- Toutouxc 6y agoThey're copying the iPad because it's the only tablet that doesn't suck and sells in any meaningful numbers.
- lostlogin 6y agoIsn’t the Surface line selling ok? I can’t stand them, but those that have them seem to love them.
- pjmlp 6y agoWindows tablets, aka laptops with detachable keyboards, are also doing pretty well. Android keeps having problems because Google is unable to drive the ecosystem to actually care, what a surprise.
- girvo 6y agoThat’s almost in spite of Tablet Windows though.
- pjmlp 6y agoThat is to be expected. There are plenty of countries where iPads are out of reach for regular consumer, and Android Tablets are in practice phones with bigger screens, given how little the ecosystem cares about them, so that leaves Windows devices as only choice for consumers.
- thaumasiotes 6y ago> Android Tablets are in practice phones with bigger screens How do iPads differ?
- Toutouxc 6y agoiPad apps are made for the iPad with the form factor in mind. There is almost no tablet ecosystem on Android.
- hangtwenty 6y agoComparing to a $GOOG tablet would raise privacy questions pretty quickly, I think This isn't an A vs B thing to me, it's just that comparing to an ipad says something to a lot of users, and quickly. If this project succeeds, it will give some alternatives to closed-ecosystem things, to new/other people (with a cheaper cost to them). So the reservations about Apple are actually reasons to support this project, in that way. Thoughts?
- mintone 6y agoThe reply that's missing for you is that the UI is clearly (to an iPadOS user) heavily inspired by that of the iPad - they are making that the selling point: > iPadOS-like UI and UX And WRT your other comments, you're probably not the target for this. I run dozens of Linux machines for work stuff but everything in my personal ecosystem is Apple because I don't find config fun. Different horses for different courses.
- iFreilicht 6y agoThe iPad is the only device I own that's not running Linux. It is so damn good for the price, the UI is so smooth, so well designed, there is just so much polish. I bought the 128GB version with a pencil for 350€ used. I am longing for a Linux alternative, but any Android tablets of similarly high quality are just so much more expensive, and actual Linux is still far away in terms of usability. What I want is an iPad, but with Linux. I'm sure I'm not the only one, and Jingling knows that.
- yitchelle 6y agoThe headline is rather confusion. At first glance, I thought that there is a Linux distro for running on the iPad. but that is clearly not the case.
- hangtwenty 6y agoIt's great to give feedback, it's also good to remember: not every distro (or project, in general) is trying to court every user or every audience. To me that's the beauty of FOSS, it's open ended.
- Uehreka 6y agoHard disagree on the “Apple kind of words” stuff. The iPad is the best tablet. I wish there were good competitors, I’d buy them, but there aren’t. To the extent someone can make a tablet OS with the look and affordances of iPadOS but with the added ability to do stuff iPadOS won’t allow (like writing/compiling code), they should absolutely be encouraged to do so.
- herbst 6y agoWhy? Sure samsung ships a horrible android, but in what things is a clean real android behind iOS?
- charrondev 6y agoAre there any android tablets with a decent chip in them? Almost everyone I’ve seen is using a very weak CPU. The iPad chips just run away from even the top end android tablets. Maybe I wouldn’t care as much but my experience on android tablets is they are just laggy. Slow to open things, little stutters throughout the OS, etc.
- f1refly 6y ago1. This was about software, not about the hardware it runs on. 2. Vanilla android runs very, very smooth because the hardware is optimized for the way it works. If the android tablets you saw where laggy, that's most likely because of the abominations android has been warped into by the manufacturer. My android phone is four years old and still buttery smooth.
- tluyben2 6y agoYeah, if the ipad pro would run a real OS (like linux) it would be the only device I would have.
- pjmlp 6y agoiPad OS is a real OS, not every real OS has to be an UNIX clone with a CLI.