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The problem is the GUI. X with multiple widget toolkits laid over it and a desktop environment laid over that is a lot of moving parts that can go wrong. Andro
by slurry 14y ago
The problem is the GUI. X with multiple widget toolkits laid over it and a desktop environment laid over that is a lot of moving parts that can go wrong.
Android and ChromeOS and TiVo and your embedded-Linux toaster don't have this problem. They don't need to run legacy X applications and have monolithic GUI's built from the ground up.
- drivebyacct2 14y agoSo, the dumbification of the computer. That's fine, I guess. I'll be the old foagie at the age of 25 who actually owns a real computer that can do more than one thing at one time. Funny that people applaud these "simple" interfaces but whine and moan about gnome-shell embracing a simple, full-screen app, full-screen launcher model...
- slurry 14y agoI'm talking about simplicity of implementation, not interface. The fact that you use a windowing system that was designed for remoting but not displaying wigets for not-remoting but displaying widgets does not make you (or me) smarter.
- drivebyacct2 14y agoI don't understand what X's network transparency has to do with any of this...
- gte910h 14y agoIt makes testing software damn hard. You can't justify testing 25 configurations of Linux. There just aren't enough dollars there to justify it. Chromebook and android each present relatively fewer targets to shoot at.