Is there any easy to setup Linux software for touch-screen keyboard and auto detecting rotations in 2 in 1 laptops?
Wondering the same thing, using an XPS 2-in-1.
JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad
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Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad
#212Perhaps a less phonetically terrible name?
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#213Earlier quoted context omitted.
Besides not really sure how I am being "so defensive"? I made one comment agreeing with somebody
> Are swedish people not literate? You're turning my statement around and perceive it as if I was suggesting Swedish people are not literate. That's not what I'm saying yet you're defending the Swedes.
You made a broad statement and I used it to ask a broad question
Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad
#214The real danger is that if the code is open-source, I could fully see knockoff or counterfeit devices taking this project, replacing the icons with rips from iPadOS, and trying to sell it.
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#215I 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…
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.
Its linux. All sorts of apps could run on it.
Plus most of the apps these days are going cloud and PWA. That well could be of a huge advantage.
Plus its by China. Once this device goes mainstream among people as a laptop replacement, expect Linux to come up with a huge number of Chinese apps.
Re: JingOS: Linux Distro Inspired by the iPad
#216I wonder if this is going to be the OS of choice for flea-market iPad counterfeits/knockoffs... the Files screen even says "On my Pad" in the shown screenshot. Everything looks close enough to be able to possibly fool an untrained eye.
Pad is also a star trek throw back, and a word. I don't see why apple should have dominion on that word. Short and succinct.
I don’t think the OP is suggesting Apple have dominion over the word. But the word in combination with this UI would be difficult to defend in court.
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#217Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't follow. It's clearly , and Jing sounds like something which is likely a Mandarin (or other Asian language) word. And Os is a widely accepted name suffix for operating system. And it turns out it is ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jing_(Chinese_medicine) ) and it's a widely used/known word, too. Additionally Jingoism, isn't really that commonly used. Most non-native speaker which are not reading certain politi…
Their about page[1] says the jing in their company name (Jingling) is 鲸, meaning whale. I don't know if that extends to the OS name as well. (They use "JingOS" even in Chinese prose.) [1]: https://www.jingos.com/about/
It probably should and given the branding I thing it makes sense to not mix Hanzi and Latin Characters.
It's just that there is:
- Jing = 鲸
- Jing as simpl. of jīng = 精
- Jing as simpl. of jīng = 經
- ...?
I wouldn't be surprised if they did consider this similar words when creating JingOs as JingOs is the essence (精) which becomes the structure they wave their ecosystem and as such success around (like Warp~經 is for weaving fabrics).
Or this is just a nice coincidence ;=)
But either way interpreting as a call out to is very far fetched.
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#218Earlier quoted context omitted.
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…
To me the fact that Ngram shows the word “patriotism” on the decline throws doubt on using it for any measure like this. Within the US “patriotism” is used very commonly. It leads me to wonder whether Ngram leans too heavily on scientific or academic literature and not on the words that people actually use in everyday conversation.
Does Ngram scan social media, TV or (to a lesser extent) newspapers? If not I’m dubious about the utility here.
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#219Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't want to be too hard on this project, but is it really "design-forward" when it's blatantly and explicitly copying the look and feel of iOS/iPadOS? Originality seems like an important component of good design.
The only thing that matter to me is can it run a terminal and can it run emacs. With the ipad/iphone failing on both those, this is quite forward to me
I’m not advocating that you _should_ do this, but you definitely _could_ do _at least_:
Install an ssh app (they exist for iOS. I’ve used them. They’re ok! They’d be better w a paired Bluetooth keyboard, easy to come by) Log into your server of choice—even just your personal machine on your LAN Hack away in emacs
This has the added benefit of not requiring local access to files on your mobile device, or setting up yet another custom dev environment on a new system
Now that I mention it, I _do_ want to try this!
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#220Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
My ipad is my primary non-work computer.