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Yet another year, yet another “this is going to be the year of the Linux desktop”.
What would make Linux actually work out was if GNOME got their shit together instead of wasting time and resources on pointless stuff. Another big thing with Linux would be if someone could get some vendor like Lenovo to open all their ARM tablets, implement an UEFI like they should have from the start and provide basic drivers.
Linux is useless for the majority of regular users, at least for work, because you don’t have xyz proprietary software, however it could work out well as a home machine for web surfing and simple documents. People would probably be happy to buy cheap ~200$ tablets from Lenovo and get a full desktop experience from those.
A standard boot system for Arm would have been awesome 10-20 years ago! I dreamed about that already back in 2005 when the OLPC idea was new, but when the netbooks finally came out, based on somewhat similar ideas, they were exclusively Intel!!!
I must admit that after having waited in vain for 20 years now, I no longer give a shit. I cannot fathom how Arm didn’t create such a standard at least a decade ago?
Initial Netbooks with Linux were very popular, but when vendors switched to a deprecated version of Windows, that ran way worse in every way, popularity of Netbooks actually dropped for a while, and the entire concept was basically declared dead. Because they were next to unusable compared to the early Linux Netbooks.
Netbooks with Arm/Linux could have been HUGE!! But now the time has passed, because many use IOS or Android instead.
Yet another year, yet another “this is going to be the year of the Linux desktop”.
What would make Linux actually work out was if GNOME got their shit together instead of wasting time and resources on pointless stuff. Another big thing with Linux would be if someone could get some vendor like Lenovo to open all their ARM tablets, implement an UEFI like they should have from the start and provide basic drivers.
Linux is useless for the majority of regular users, at least for work, because you don’t have xyz proprietary software, however it could work out well as a home machine for web surfing and simple documents. People would probably be happy to buy cheap ~200$ tablets from Lenovo and get a full desktop experience from those.
A standard boot system for Arm would have been awesome 10-20 years ago! I dreamed about that already back in 2005 when the OLPC idea was new, but when the netbooks finally came out, based on somewhat similar ideas, they were exclusively Intel!!!
I must admit that after having waited in vain for 20 years now, I no longer give a shit. I cannot fathom how Arm didn’t create such a standard at least a decade ago?
Initial Netbooks with Linux were very popular, but when vendors switched to a deprecated version of Windows, that ran way worse in every way, popularity of Netbooks actually dropped for a while, and the entire concept was basically declared dead. Because they were next to unusable compared to the early Linux Netbooks.
Netbooks with Arm/Linux could have been HUGE!! But now the time has passed, because many use IOS or Android instead.
Well, the problem is… they did: https://developer.arm.com/Architectures/Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
But then came along the Pi guys that should’ve implemented an UEFI to push the market into that direction but never did.
The new Snapdragon X machines actually seem to have UEFIs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-Damzgq5Bg&t=978s&pp=2AHSB5ACAQ%3D%3D
But we need more, tablets with open boot and drivers are important.