On 06/25/2010 08:28 PM, John D. Mort wrote: > Does anyone have any experience with tablet PC's and linux? I'm > looking at netbooks and noticed the tablets, figured something like > that would be nice. But all the models that catch my eye don't > mention anything about linux support and the comments tend to discuss > how poorly the machine handles linux. Just wondering if linux is in > the tablet game yet or if this is something I should wait on.
I think a big part of the Linux story on tablets is the stylus (or lack
there of) support. The Windows tablet edition really leaned a lot on a
custom stylus layer for apps that ran on it.
While the base hardware is typically supported in Linux, having a tablet
that was designed to be used with a stylus, without good linux support,
makes for a bad overall experience.
Depending on what you want out of a device the Chrome OS ones should be
coming out this fall. I'm not sure if there will be tablet models or not.
I think Apple surprised everyone with deciding that a table is a fixed
function device, and not a real computer with the iPad, so I'm not sure
if that means Linux tablets that come to the fore will be Ubuntu /
Chrome kind or go the Apple route and be Android kind.
-Sean
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