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The truly sad thing is, there was a killer form factor for phones. N900. Full touchscreen, with a slide-out physical keyboard. It wasn't a perfect device, far
by bostik 3y ago
The truly sad thing is, there was a killer form factor for phones. N900. Full touchscreen, with a slide-out physical keyboard.
It wasn't a perfect device, far from it. The details of the form factor were still off: the device was too thick, and the keyboard was part of a heavy "base". It slid out too little for the keyboard to be properly useful. The screen was the wrong size, with an awkward aspect ratio. But nonetheless, N900 had the right idea. With three or four hardware revisions it could have become something magnificent.
Instead what we have right now is like the Zork opening from an alternate universe - "you are in a maze of twisted options, all equally shitty."
Btw, the consistent desktop experience exists right now. It's called "i3" or "sway", depending on your display tech.
- nottorp 3y ago“Sway is a wayland compositor”. Does that give a consistent experience across applications? Or at least a taskbar that doesn’t visibly add and remove icons every time they refresh, recalculating sizes and shrinking and growing all the time? Which was kde’s state last time I used Linux as my main deskop…
- bostik 3y agoIn a way, yes. It stays out of the way - in fact, there is no desktop. i3 is a tiling window manager, and rather minimalistic at that. Sway is a wayland-native reimplementation of i3, with the same (lack of) appearance, and i3 configs work with sway pretty much out of the box. To launch a program you either hit a hotkey combo of your choice or use <win>-d to bring up a top-of-screen text menu bar with full text search to find (and launch) your desired software. Stating the obvious: I've never been a fan of desktop environments. I found them confusing even back in the GEOS (C-64) and windows 2.x days.