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Re: Install Ubuntu on Nexus 7

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Post by mediocregopher »

Extremely misleading title. Maybe the utility to download and flash the device only takes one click to use, but we can't just ignore the fact that you have to actually get the device in recovery mode etc to even reach that step. I like that my nexus could potentially have ubuntu on it, but I think it's important to not purposefully misrepresent the steps it would take to get there.

Re: Install Ubuntu on Nexus 7

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Post by grey-area »

This is a very early experimental project, requires wiping your nexus 7, the performance will not be good and it doesn't have a tablet interface, so it's for testers/devs rather than normal users at this stage:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

It might help improve desktop performance though, and provide an alternative truly platform to android for phone manufacturers in time, so an interesting move for Ubuntu.

Re: Install Ubuntu on Nexus 7

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Post by wavesounds »

mcantelon wrote: post #4
hack_edu wrote: post #3

Now that this has been out for a few days, can anyone speak to the performance?

I'd like to hear about usability as well. If it's decent to use could be an interesting tool

Also anyone know about drivers? I have a microusb to usb dongle so it'd be cool to hook up a mouse and keyboard does anyone know whats supported in this regard?

Re: Install Ubuntu on Nexus 7

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Post by achiang »

wavesounds wrote: post #6
mcantelon wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd like to hear about usability as well. If it's decent to use could be an interesting tool

Also anyone know about drivers? I have a microusb to usb dongle so it'd be cool to hook up a mouse and keyboard does anyone know whats supported in this regard?

You will need a USB OTG cable to use USB peripherals. This is mentioned in the wiki.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Nexus7/UsingTheDevice

Re: Install Ubuntu on Nexus 7

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Post by achiang »

mediocregopher wrote: post #2

Extremely misleading title. Maybe the utility to download and flash the device only takes one click to use, but we can't just ignore the fact that you have to actually get the device in recovery mode etc to even reach that step. I like that my nexus could potentially have ubuntu on it, but I think it's important to not purposefully misrepresent the steps it would take to get there.

We did think about adding 'fastboot oem unlock' to our installer script, but decided against for UX reasons. Asking the user to do some ugly looking terminal commands hopefully scared away the folks who least understood what they might have been getting into, as it is explicitly intended to be a developer build.

As for the various blog headlines, we obviously don't have control over those.

[edit] Oops, I see you might have been referring to the wiki. Thanks, I cleaned up the wording a bit to say "graphical installer" instead of "one-click installer". Thanks.

Re: Install Ubuntu on Nexus 7

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Post by voltagex_ »

hack_edu wrote: post #3

Now that this has been out for a few days, can anyone speak to the performance?

I wouldn't go near it yet, but it's very promising.

There are too many big bugs listed here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-nexus7/+bugs

RSS to subscribe to that is http://feeds.launchpad.net/ubuntu-nexus7/latest-bugs.atom

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