On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Jo-Erlend Schinstad <[email protected]> wrote: > I want to remind everyone that Microsoft _had to_ switch quickly. It was > apparent that ARM was here to stay and they had no defence. With all the > third-party apps, created around the proprietary ideals, they could never > have competed on ARM as a traditional WIMP system. They had to create > something very different just to explain why people could no longer run > their apps. Ubuntu is in a very different situation. We have mostly all our > apps on ARM and x86. Ubuntu can be fantastic on the phone with an impressive > desktop addon without competing with the PC desktop. We can have both. >
I would like to add that, on x86, we can also run the Microsoft apps with increasing reliability. Wine is only getting better. It also won't be long before ARM + QEMU is fast enough to run a very significant and important number of Windows applications. I really believe that, with a bit of usability work, by next LTS we will have a migration story that no longer requires users to replace every single possible app. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
