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Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by Rochus »

treszkai wrote: post #70
monsieurbanana wrote: post #31

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> Which company is behind this? This is the only thing I found with some limited googling: > Our team is very experienced in making gadgets. They are experts from Xiaomi/OPPO/Google/Ubuntu and other Consumer Electronic Companies. So what we are talking about here is not a low-end tablet for geeks and Linux users. It will be designed just like a tablet for consumers with the best quality we can achieve. From: https://…

> Our team is very experienced in making gadgets. They are experts from Xiaomi/OPPO/Google/Ubuntu and other Consumer Electronic Companies. Interestingly, JingOS's About page [1] uses similar words but different companies: > Our team is very experienced. They are experts from Lenovo, Alibaba, Sumsung, Canonical/Ubuntu, Trolltech and other famous IT Companies. [1]: https://www.jingos.com/about/

> Trolltech

Trolltech, the creator of the Qt framework, became part of Nokia in 2008 and doesn't exist any more as a company since. So it's a rather strange reference.

Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by Toutouxc »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #95
pjmlp wrote: post #76

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That is to be expected. There are plenty of countries where iPads are out of reach for regular consumer, and Android Tablets are in practice phones with bigger screens, given how little the ecosystem cares about them, so that leaves Windows devices as only choice for consumers.

> Android Tablets are in practice phones with bigger screens How do iPads differ?

iPad apps are made for the iPad with the form factor in mind. There is almost no tablet ecosystem on Android.

Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by GordonS »

Grustaf wrote: post #129
hnarn wrote: post #116

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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.

And how common is it to be a reader of The Economist?

Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by gammalost »

emteycz wrote: post #127
hnarn wrote: post #122

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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…

Looked up that book on two different online stores in Sweden cdon and bokus. On both of them the book had zero reviews. Are swedish people not literate?

Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by ynx »

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

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Not very obscure, but sure.

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

I heard the word throughout my (American) upbringing - it might not be used as much internationally but it's definitely not obscure by any stretch.

Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by emteycz »

gammalost wrote: post #134
emteycz wrote: post #127

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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…

Looked up that book on two different online stores in Sweden cdon and bokus. On both of them the book had zero reviews. Are swedish people not literate?

I am very sure Pratchett is well known even in Sweden. What are the reviews for Romeo and Juliet? And again - not knowing Pratchett doesn't say that one isn't literate. The statement is "most genuinely literate people will know Pratchett". Stop being so defensive for nothing, nobody is attacking your intellect here...

Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by oaiey »

captainmuon wrote: post #111
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).

Well that is a good idea. But it has a problem: dev and ux capacity. When you try to make 20 different than you split your force into 20 different projects. Apple and Microsoft do not have this problem and will therefore always lead the pack.

Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by antihero »

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.

I think it could very much find its place repurposed within a capitalist context to describe the behaviour of big tech companies.

Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad

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Post by usr1106 »

GordonS wrote: post #133
Grustaf wrote: post #129

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

And how common is it to be a reader of The Economist?

I have used English as my daily working language in software development for over 20 years and had never heard it before.

Well, we don't discuss a lot of politics in international teams, that's a taboo topic especially when working with Chinese colleagues. And for Trump we have only one word, that I don't want to repeat here.

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