On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 15:59, Reindl Harald <h.reindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > what did you exactly not understand in "the percent does not matter" > all this counts will not change the fact that workstations and > powerusers will exist in 10 years as they do now The percentage DOES matter in terms of GROWTH and MIND SHARE. Mobile devices and mouse-less, or keyboard-less devices will be where growth will be, often at a fraction of the cost of a traditional computer. In other words, the ´new´ devices will grow and the traditional pc environment will eventually stall. If any OS decides to ´ignore´ this trend it will become a niche market. An OS that is no longer talked about is often forgotten. Remember IBM OS/2? It´s still for sale -and somewhat limited development- under another brand at www.ecomstation.com. Will it grow? hardly. Will anybody know about it 10 years from now? very unlikely. That´s the reason why Linux cannot afford to ignore the new devices and ´morphings´ of the computer to new aread, and why it must offer UIs designed for these new devices and paradigms. In fact, I worry that Canonical´s latest "get Ubuntu on TVs" might be too late already. Rest assured, nobody will be taking your XFCE and KDE desktops from you, if you want to use them on a traditional PC. But IMHO it´s desirable to see Linux moving into these new grounds. Just my $0.02 FC -- "The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers." Richard Hamming - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_code -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
