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Ask Soylent - Best Hardware for Debian Tablet?

posted by n1 on Thursday April 03 2014, @02:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the liberating-hardware-from-the-evil-empires dept.

cosurgi writes:

I am getting fed up with all those app stores that just sell apps, but never give the source code. I used to fix in the source code the things that annoyed me. In the case of app stores, I just get generic (and very kind) replies from authors. Apart from those replies they never improve their apps, just collect more money from people who purchased (and can't get money back if not satisfied).

I have decided to install Debian on a tablet but I need some really nice hardware first that I can use for that. I would prefer a bigger screen, but in fact if you know any tablet that will run nicely with Debian or Ubuntu please tell!

 
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Marneus68 on Thursday April 03 2014, @03:33PM

    by Marneus68 (3572) on Thursday April 03 2014, @03:33PM (#25635) Homepage

    >lack of touch-aware apps
    >apps
    That word...

    Anyway, Gnome 3 and Gnome Shell are really touch friendly these days, that's probably the only thing Gnome is doing right. There's even a usable virtual keyboard that pops up when you need it.

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  • (Score: 2) by mmcmonster on Thursday April 03 2014, @08:13PM

    by mmcmonster (401) on Thursday April 03 2014, @08:13PM (#25813)

    The problem is the word 'apps'. Even if the OS is completely touch-aware or even can go between mouse to touch inputs seemlessly, you needs the apps to do likewise.

    Name some common open source apps that work well with a touch screen. They can't use traditional menus. They need larger widgets and be more forgiving of inputs to go along with inaccuracies in finger movement.

    Until the applications themselves are optimized for touch screen, or at least have touch-appropriate skins, there's no point in running a linux desktop environment on a touch screen.

    Just run Android.