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Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by emteycz »

bbekiaris wrote: post #108
emteycz wrote: post #85

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No, non-Apple users are complaining, Apple users generally like the experience.

Well in my experience people who don't complain about the App store never used any other app store in their life. For what I know they even think that the app store is Apple's invention.

Because it actually is... Android Market was introduced months after App Store. Obviously programmers know that fundamentally it's extension of some ideas from the Linux world, but that is very irrelevant to the users, and the basics of "download an application from a registry" are not what makes the great App Store experience.

Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by hnarn »

emteycz wrote: post #120
hnarn wrote: post #113

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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.

It's still staggeringly elitist and unaware to assume that "genuinely" literate people (whatever that means) should not only know of Pratchett but also know his entire bibliography by heart. While it may come to a shock for English speakers from the UK and the US, not everyone that speaks English are American or British, and may not be primarily interested in literature from those countries.

Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by onedognight »

533474 wrote: post #118

Why inspired by Apple?, why not make their own thing instead of a knockoff? They r talented individuals they can totally make their own thing

Many members of this site cut their teeth reimplementing proprietary Unix from scratch, e.g. the entire GNU project. Having an open source version of something is a laudable and noteworthy goal. Often many improvements are implemented along the way, since one doesn’t have to do the original design, e.g. the entire GNU project. I for one, am happy to see this.

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Post by reacharavindh »

Uehreka wrote: post #73
janandonly wrote: post #55

I am happy to see projects that make Linux look beter or more user friendly. But to truly catch up with iPadOS one needs to recreate not just the UX but also powerful features that it comes with * can the Photo app recognize faces? or landscapes ? * can the Notes app do OCR on pictures and PDF’s? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25805137 * is there an iCloud like function that synchronizes in the background? It i…

For me personally, I don’t care if it’s got all of Apple’s bells and whistles, what I personally want is: - A tablet OS that looks approximately as nice as iPadOS and works approximately as well. With a Springboard-ish homescreen/app paradigm. - The ability to run a terminal - The ability to run apps in full screen and swipe between them - Access to the most popular handful of apps (Chrome, VS Code, Slack, Discord, Z…

This. I use my iPad Pro as a glorified Netflix, YouTube, and sketching machine. It’s hardware is good and lays there under utilised.

If a tablet could get close iPad in usability and hardware and yet open it up to have a full terminal and ability to install local Linux apps. That’d be a great productivity tool, and an excellent mobility device.

Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by emteycz »

hnarn wrote: post #122
emteycz wrote: post #120

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

It's still staggeringly elitist and unaware to assume that "genuinely" literate people (whatever that means) should not only know of Pratchett but also know his entire bibliography by heart. While it may come to a shock for English speakers from the UK and the US, not everyone that speaks English are American or British, and may not be primarily interested in literature from those countries.

Genuinely literate people mostly know Pratchett, it's a extremely well known author consistently topping charts whose books are available in nearly every language of the world, very popular in Russia as well as Finland as well as Czechia and elsewhere. It shocks me (a Czech person) you'd claim otherwise, some of his books are actually required reading here - we read foreign literature just as much as local. It never struck me as elitist, this is pure merit - you're making it about nations but it's just about Pratchett being that good.

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Post by tgv »

epse wrote: post #71
tgv wrote: post #63

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What’s really difficult IMO is getting the development environment right, plus the app store. Without that, it’s nothing but another bit of eye candy.

Isn't the app store and development experience exactly what people keep complaining about for Ios?

Devs complain about XCode, but the libraries/frameworks are great. Publishing to the app store is pretty easy, and there are hundreds of millions of potential customers, which are there because the curation of the app store is good (enough). If you want to know what happens when your IDE is OK-ish, but the other aspects fail, look at Microsoft's presence in the mobile phone market.

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Post by Grustaf »

hnarn wrote: post #116
adam-a wrote: post #103

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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 woul…

You can’t open an issue of The Economist without seeing Trump or some dictator being accused of jingoism.

Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by Toutouxc »

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.

Well, I could probably do my work on a Raspberry Pi, yet here I am with a MacBook. Ease of use. Aesthetics. Speed.
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