Re: Linux and tablets?

From	Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com>
Newsgroups	comp.mobile.android
Subject	Re: Linux and tablets?
Date	2019-01-23 21:55 +0000
Organization	Some absurd concept
Message-ID	<eli$1901231655@qaz.wtf> (permalink)
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In comp.mobile.android, nospam  <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> <https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prEMEA44441818>
>   Apple ranked first with 25.1% market share and increasing 7.9% YoY.
> ...
>   Amazon rose to third with a market share of 10.8% and increasing by
> ...
>   Huawei ranked fifth with a 7.2% market share and growth of 59.3% YoY.

Are those Linux tablets? For values of Linux equaling "Not Android"
and "Not Chrome"?

> as for reading text on a phone, it works perfectly fine, especially on

People with different eye defects than you or I disagree.

> linux wasn't designed for touch, nor was windows for that matter.

X11 wasn't designed for touch. Linux is perfectly capable of running a
different GUI and having a different experience, ChromeOS and and
Android are specific examples of that happening. Wayland is supposed to
be another. I briefly tried MGR (https://hack.org/mc/mgr/) sometime
before I was married, so 20+ years ago; it's a GUI on Linux that is
not X11 at all.

> adding a keyboard and mouse makes it effectively a laptop.

The Cambrio has a detachable keyboard which I anticipate not using
except during set-up. The scenario I'm looking at is tinkerable home
automation at prices cheaper than industrial panel mount computers.
I don't need, for example, "drag and drop". I need a network server that
I can apply soft push buttons like "pause this job" and "reprint last
job" to. Touch screen emulating a mouse that clicks but doesn't move
normally in X11 is perfectly fine for me. I've already done it with a
smaller non-tablet format device.

Apple's hardware is particularly ill-suited for what I want because it
is by hardware and software design intended to be a closed system.
Android is a little better, but has serious obstacles in the way.
ChromeOS is designed to for web client niche and similar to Android.
Windows tablets exist, but I really have no relevant experience in
writing GUI or servers for Windows. The best thing about them is they
seem the easiest to re-OS to Linux.

Elijah
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has priced out those industrial panel mount systems

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Linux and tablets? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2019-01-22 19:41 -0800
  Re: Linux and tablets? Hergen Lehmann <hlehmann.expires.5-11@snafu.de> - 2019-01-23 09:59 +0100
    Re: Linux and tablets? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2019-01-23 03:26 -0800
      Re: Linux and tablets? 123456789 <12345@12345.com> - 2019-01-23 09:33 -0700
        Re: Linux and tablets? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2019-01-23 21:10 +0000
    Re: Linux and tablets? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-01-23 08:29 -0500
      Re: Linux and tablets? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-01-23 20:43 +0000
        Re: Linux and tablets? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-01-23 16:24 -0500
          Re: Linux and tablets? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-01-23 21:55 +0000
            Re: Linux and tablets? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-01-23 18:05 -0500
              Re: Linux and tablets? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-01-23 23:39 +0000
                Re: Linux and tablets? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-01-23 23:24 -0500
              Re: Linux and tablets? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-01-24 13:54 +0100
        Re: Linux and tablets? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2019-01-24 21:29 -0800
          Re: Linux and tablets? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-01-25 21:12 +0000
  Re: Linux and tablets? Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2019-01-24 01:35 +0000
    Re: Linux and tablets? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2019-01-24 16:44 -0800
      Re: Linux and tablets? 123456789 <12345@12345.com> - 2019-01-24 17:58 -0700
        Re: Linux and tablets? Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2019-01-25 09:49 +0000
        Re: Linux and tablets? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-01-25 14:25 +0100
          Re: Linux and tablets? 123456789 <123456@123456.com> - 2019-01-25 09:04 -0700
            Re: Linux and tablets? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2019-01-25 22:03 +0100

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