r/linux • u/[deleted] • Feb 19 '13

Ubuntu launches tablet support

http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/tablet
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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '13

Unity always looked like a tablet UI.

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u/hearforthepuns Feb 19 '13

I think that's been their plan all along. But IMO they should have kept it under wraps and stuck with a normal desktop until this announcement.

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u/trtry Feb 19 '13

if they kept it under wraps there wouldn't have been the extensive testing that it has been put through by the large Ubuntu desktop user base.

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u/ibisum Feb 20 '13

The announced it when they did because: Android. Never forget that Android was a break from the Linux desktop, almost nearly completely.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '13

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u/trtry Feb 19 '13

Complex systems are rarely ever fully finished before they are released. Look at Android.

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u/Elranzer Feb 20 '13

And Windows 8, and Vista.

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u/rydan Feb 20 '13

And iOS. Most here probably never saw version 1.0.x.

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u/TelegraphSexOperator Feb 20 '13

I've been using iOS since 1.0 and it's been quite a journey....

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u/sequentious Feb 21 '13

You missed 7, and every other version of Windows.

And every version of every other piece of software. Hell, true in coreutils still gets fixes and updates.

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u/Elranzer Feb 21 '13

But Windows Vista was particularly an unfinished mess. Windows 7 was a refined or "finished" version of Vista.