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Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by captainmuon »

oaiey wrote: post #102

If just they would focus all this work in one desktop environment and its app instead of having yet another fork. As awesome as this is, this is no contribution to the Linux Desktop.

But there is no single "Linux Desktop". If these people would contribute to e.g. Gnome instead, they might help improve Gnome but they couldn't realize this idea.

Personally I think there is little benefit to having one single Linux desktop that is equivalent to Windows or macOS, just with a different theme and a different kernel. Desktop Linux is about choice (TM).

Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by noir_lord »

hnarn wrote: post #110
Grustaf wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not very obscure, but sure.

Why isn’t it obscure? Because you know it?

I mean Terry Pratchett (very popular English language author) wrote a book literally called Jingo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingo_(novel)

It's not a word you'd hear every day but it's a word I'd bet on the majority of genuinely literate people to understand.

Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by hnarn »

noir_lord wrote: post #112
hnarn wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why isn’t it obscure? Because you know it?

I mean Terry Pratchett (very popular English language author) wrote a book literally called Jingo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingo_(novel) It's not a word you'd hear every day but it's a word I'd bet on the majority of genuinely literate people to understand.

The HN filter bubble truly can be a staggering thing sometimes. I never knew I wasn't genuinely literate, but you learn something every day.

Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by reikonomusha »

noir_lord wrote: post #112
hnarn wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why isn’t it obscure? Because you know it?

I mean Terry Pratchett (very popular English language author) wrote a book literally called Jingo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingo_(novel) It's not a word you'd hear every day but it's a word I'd bet on the majority of genuinely literate people to understand.

Your assertion about what a majority of literate people know is almost surely false.

Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by hnarn »

adam-a wrote: post #103
hnarn wrote: post #99

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The company is called Jingling which seems to be a Chinese city, so I highly doubt they named it after some obscure English expression.

While I agree it's probably not intentional the word is pretty common in British English.

Obviously "pretty common" is, just like "obscure", completely subjective. I consider it obscure, but all I can say from looking it up is that at least according to Google Ngram, it's about 1/10 as common as "patriotism", which is saying something as that's been a declining word for a century. It's less common than "chauvinism", "sectarianism" and "xenophobia". In fact, tripling the popularity of "jingoism" still wouldn't make it as popular as any of those. It also peaked in the early 1900s and has since been on a low plateu, which again, I consider a marker of obscurity.

Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by reikonomusha »

herbst wrote: post #96
Toutouxc wrote: post #52

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They're copying the iPad because it's the only tablet that doesn't suck and sells in any meaningful numbers.

What are people doing with their tablets that a iPad is a meaningful benefit? I could read my shitter news on any device with a screen, as well as control my smart home.

Could you also easily clone Dropbox’s functionality with a server and rsync? :)

Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by lvturner »

hnarn wrote: post #99
popcorncowboy wrote: post #94

Unfortunate name [0] :| or perhaps it was intended? Very clever then. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingoism

The company is called Jingling which seems to be a Chinese city, so I highly doubt they named it after some obscure English expression.

They are also based in BeiJING（北京）where Jing (京) can be taken to mean capital.

Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by emteycz »

hnarn wrote: post #113
noir_lord wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean Terry Pratchett (very popular English language author) wrote a book literally called Jingo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jingo_(novel) It's not a word you'd hear every day but it's a word I'd bet on the majority of genuinely literate people to understand.

The HN filter bubble truly can be a staggering thing sometimes. I never knew I wasn't genuinely literate, but you learn something every day.

They said that the majority of genuinely literate people will know it, that doesn't say anything about you.
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