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Is it still a 'normal Ubuntu' machine underneath? I'm getting a sense that you won't be easily porting X11-based apps to it - is this nonsense? My personal de

• vegabook 11y ago
  I've been using it purely as a phone for now (other than the occasional ssh into the office), but it is exactly the vision you state above that puts me into the early adopter camp. I don't know about X apps. MiR is supposted to have an X-compatibility layer on it as far as I understand, just like Wayland, but the details or pitfalls are not known to me. I am going to assume that Canonical will try to steer people towards MiR, hence the controversy about the rift with the rest of the Linux community. I'm assuming that this is being watched very closely by the other distros and I don't see why we shouldn't see other full blow linux stacks on phone-like devices in the future. This is clearly the way forward and I'm going with Ubuntu now because they're the furthest ahead.
• dharma1 11y ago
  "My personal desire is to have a multi-core, multi-gigabyte, 8-10+ hour battery life software development workstation, in my pocket, which can also receive phone calls. If this is the future, with Ubuntu, then color me converted." That is exactly the plan and is being worked on at the moment. X11 apps will work through XMir - they won't be touch optimised but will still work, will however be much more useable when connecting the phone to a larger display and a bluetooth mouse/keyboard. Additionally we are working on a Qt/QML toolkit which will allow developers to write apps that work well on both mobile and desktop