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Ubuntu Reveals One Linux OS for Phones, PCs, and TVs

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bluecoyote

Jan 2, 2013, 10:56 PM

Gesture-based UI's are terrible

Although the screenshots look pretty, the preview on the Verge looks like this is going to be a complete disaster to use in real life. Canonical simply spent too much time paying Photoshop jockeys and not enough time engineering their UI.

A real world problem- under heavy processor strain, the phone has to simultaneously handle cellular background data, the application task, any background/os tasks, and track enough points on something like a swipe (while checking it against the accidental input prevention heuristics) before it can execute an action. When an OS bogs down, it becomes plagued with unwanted stutters, hiccups, and misread input. Making that your entire OS navigation method means you're betting the farm on hyper-responsivenes...
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bluecoyote said:
Although the screenshots look pretty, the preview on the Verge looks like this is going to be a complete disaster to use in real life. Canonical simply spent too much time paying Photoshop jockeys and not enough ti
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KOL4420

Jan 2, 2013, 6:43 PM

Incredible!

Cant wait to get my hands on it. I use Ubuntu on my PC desktop its great! But wow complete computing device on any device Tablet and smart phone alike. I want to flash my old phone first to see how it goes then I can play with it on my Note 2 😛.
It almost sounds too good to be true.
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will be reduced of course on ARM platforms.
It's been a few years since the first time ubuntu was able to run on ARM based systems, some functionality of the OS of course is crippled due to the limited capabilities of ARM.
Now-days; plenty of tools ...
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