Linux at 25: Q&A with Linus Torvalds

Re:Linux at 25: Q&A with Linus Torvalds by chippy on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @08:47AM (#11388816)

I believe the comment was saying:

calling Android handsets and Chromebooks "linux computers" makes me cringe (versus "both android handsets and chromebooks make me cringe")

if that helps understand the context a bit more.

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Re:Linux at 25: Q&A with Linus Torvalds by jhasse on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @08:59AM (#11388897)

Ups, yeah. Sorry I just missed copying the whole sentence by accident. I wanted to know why it makes him cringe to call them Linux computers ;)

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Re:Linux at 25: Q&A with Linus Torvalds by skosch on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @09:37AM (#11389128)

Presumably because they're so far removed from the Linux-On-The-Desktop Experience™ we (the HN crowd) are familiar with.

It's the tradeoff between mass-market UX and raw power and customizability, and Android/Chromebooks are at one end of the spectrum while what we associate with "Linux computers" is at the other.

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