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Someone just needs to desktopize Honeycomb even more and port it to x86. It shouldn't be too hard to make it work better than the mess KDE and GNOME are at this

Someone just needs to desktopize Honeycomb even more and port it to x86. It shouldn't be too hard to make it work better than the mess KDE and GNOME are at this point. That someone should be Intel and AMD I think - if they put their money we could really see some hope for Linux on Desktop via Tablets. Real threat to Microsoft if they can make it work great on both platforms.

darklajid 15y ago
I fail to see the point. The people that complain the most here are those that seem to fall into the "poweruser" category. That instead move off to a inferior (my view) DE like xfce just to keep their muscle memory or leave for tiling window managers, a completely different wm strategy. Why do you think that these people would love working with Android as OS/DE? It seems to me that Android is much _worse_ for them - and falls exactly into the 'We don't want something that seems to be made for tablets, we want a productive work environment' line of complaints? Edit: Oh, and let me add a snarky comment regarding 'That someone should be Intel': No, if you like to have a nice integrated environment that differs from current DEs and is tablet friendly, than Intel would be happy to see you using MeeGo, on a 'real' Linux stack.
- blinkingled 15y ago
  Yeah, MeeGo is going everywhere. Snark aside I wasn't saying use Android as is on Desktops if you read what I wrote. It is already somewhat desktop-ish and would need to be made more so but I don't see why that would be hard to do.
davidw 15y ago
> It shouldn't be too hard to make it work better than the mess KDE and GNOME are at this point. Yeah, I bet you could build that in a weekend...
- blinkingled 15y ago
  Thanks for putting the exact timeframe on it. Super useful to understand it in weekend for modifying something existing vs what do you think 4 weeks for fixing GNOME or KDE? :p Today's Dilbert is made for exactly this situation :-) http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-08-04/ http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-08-04/

darklajid 15y ago

I fail to see the point. The people that complain the most here are those that seem to fall into the "poweruser" category. That instead move off to a inferior (my view) DE like xfce just to keep their muscle memory or leave for tiling window managers, a completely different wm strategy. Why do you think that these people would love working with Android as OS/DE? It seems to me that Android is much _worse_ for them - and falls exactly into the 'We don't want something that seems to be made for tablets, we want a productive work environment' line of complaints? Edit: Oh, and let me add a snarky comment regarding 'That someone should be Intel': No, if you like to have a nice integrated environment that differs from current DEs and is tablet friendly, than Intel would be happy to see you using MeeGo, on a 'real' Linux stack.

blinkingled 15y ago
Yeah, MeeGo is going everywhere. Snark aside I wasn't saying use Android as is on Desktops if you read what I wrote. It is already somewhat desktop-ish and would need to be made more so but I don't see why that would be hard to do.

davidw 15y ago

> It shouldn't be too hard to make it work better than the mess KDE and GNOME are at this point. Yeah, I bet you could build that in a weekend...

blinkingled 15y ago
Thanks for putting the exact timeframe on it. Super useful to understand it in weekend for modifying something existing vs what do you think 4 weeks for fixing GNOME or KDE? :p Today's Dilbert is made for exactly this situation :-) http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-08-04/ http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2011-08-04/