After watching: UbuntuonTablets three highlights

I don't know if everyone was paying attention to the new product launch conference held by HTC in both Britain and the United States on the evening of February 19. Although I was a mobile phone controller, I did go to the next door to give a look, but in the end, I kept my eyes on the countdown page of the Ubuntu community homepage, because that night, canonical, which focuses on open-source projects, wants to publish a new version of the operating system that may affect the future development of the IT terminal platform Market & mdash; UbuntuForTablets. In fact, this version of Ubunt

I don't know if everyone was paying attention to the new product launch conference held by HTC in both Britain and the United States on the evening of February 19. Although I was a mobile phone controller, I did go to the next door to give a look, but in the end, I kept my eyes on the countdown page of the Ubuntu community homepage, because that night, canonical, which focuses on open-source projects, wants to publish a new version of the operating system, Ubuntu For Tablets, which may affect the future development of the IT terminal platform market.

Speaking of this version of Ubuntu For Tablets, we saw similar products in CES2013, USA in January, but it was Ubuntu For Phone running on the Galaxy Nexus mobile Phone. So far, we can say that Canonical has become one of Apple's fourth companies, Google and Microsoft, the company has three mainstream terminal platform operating systems: traditional PC, smart phone, and tablet. From a narrow perspective, Ubuntu For Tablets is more important than HTC's flagship phone number.

As Canonical promised on the home page of the Ubuntu official website, the official release of Ubuntu For Tablets and Ubuntu For Phone in February 21 and the flash brush tutorial. Compared with the more complex desktop version installation method, the flash method of the mobile Ubuntu system is consistent with that of most Android phones and tablets, which is simple and easy to operate, card swiping and wire swiping are supported at the same time. So I have a Google Nexus 4 in my hand, so I also tried this operating system for a long time.

Countdown page For Ubuntu For Tablets (picture from official Ubuntu website)

After the experience, we can feel that this is a Developer Preview System with a relatively low completion level, the smoothness of various interactive operations and the completeness of functions are far from the final ideal version described in the official video, of course, it is somewhat different from what I previously imagined (compared with Windows's DP version ). So will the Ubuntu System of the mobile version be successful? We may be able to start from the growth process of Linux or Ubuntu and talk about its future.

Ubuntu of the desktop version has a share of about 1/3 of MacOS (picture from Valve)

As the most user-friendly release of the GUI in Linux open-source projects, the Ubuntu system was born in the far-away 2004, its goal is to provide an up-to-date and stable operating system built mainly by Free Software for general users. It is also the most popular among more than 10 Release versions. According to data in the shares list published in March, the overall share of desktop Ubuntu systems in recent versions is 1.12%, which is about 3.56% of Apple's MacOS system, compared with Windows 94.7%.

Elegant touch: Ubuntu on Tablets is just like this (picture from the official Ubuntu website)

In order to expand its influence, Canonical also began to follow Apple's and Google's practices and officially announced its entry into the mobile Internet market in March this year, the solution is to provide the corresponding Ubuntu system For these smartphones, Tablets, and other mobile terminals, that is, the Ubuntu For Phone and Ubuntu For Tablets mentioned above.

Looking back at the development process of the past decade, including the two systems recently released for mobile terminals, ubuntu has been striving to improve the friendliness of the graphic interactive interface, the biggest difference between Linux and Windows systems. The reason why I spent a lot of energy on this is mainly because Linux was initially like an earlier version of Windows or MacOS, and most of the operations were implemented in the form of input command lines, therefore, many people regard it as a technology house patent, and an invisible barrier blocks people's curiosity.

The interactive interface of Ubuntu for the desktop version is becoming more friendly (images are from the official Ubuntu website)

But in fact, when the Ubuntu system is getting better and easier to use, people are still reluctant to approach it from their inherent points of view, because the interactive interface and operation methods of Windows have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Fortunately, we have seen hope in the smart mobile terminal market, and the rise of Apple and Google is pressing down on Microsoft's idea of a three-pronged world, ubuntu, which is similar to the Android system but not the same, gives me hope.