Ubuntu 10.10-Powered Tablet in the Works

[Silmarunya]

[citation][nom]ubuntu_enthuziast[/nom]Claudecat, Wayland is purely on the back end, it won't make a bit of difference to the end user (except for greatly improved performance, of course). X11 is outdated, the top feature of X11 is that it can allow you to run applications over a network, which no longer has value, since the modern standard is to just write a web application that can be run in any web browser.Future releases of Unity are mostly just bringing some 3d Compiz bling to the desktop without requiring the user to learn 1000+ hotkeys to initiate the FX. This lowers the barrier to entry for being a L337 Linux g33k with a desktop cube that spins around. Besides, it's just another taskbar to click on, there's not a whole lot to get your head around.[/citation]

First of all, Wayland will have noticeable effects on the user. For start, all current gen closed source GPU drivers are rendered useless by Wayland. Second, it is yet unsure that all existing applications will work on Wayland (most will, but Wayland can't guarantee full compability. At least not yet)

And when it comes to Unity, that's another thingy I'm not too fond of. Unity is quite bugged and slow at the moment, but I'm sure that'll change soon enough. What I do question though, are Unity's open source credentials. While it is based on the open source GNOME interface, it's not fully open source.

 

[Guest]

OK Silmarunya, if I may summarize your post:

Wayland + Unity will make a huge difference to end-users if they screw it up and break everything.


Geez, man, the current natty build is crap, and Wayland isn't even a finished product yet, but I think the intent was to fix a lot of that stuff before it goes into a release, use some common sense....

 

[hardcore_gamer]

x86 tablet ? not interested