LinuxCon: The world's largest Linux desktop deployment

Posted Aug 23, 2011 7:45 UTC (Tue) by halla (subscriber, #14185)
In reply to: LinuxCon: The world's largest Linux desktop deployment by dowdle
Parent article: LinuxCon: The world's largest Linux desktop deployment

I haven't had a desktop for years... But there's no way I'll replace my laptop with a tablet. Tablets just aren't made for productive use, they are made to make you spend money or make you read advertisements.

LinuxCon: The world's largest Linux desktop deployment

Posted Aug 23, 2011 9:17 UTC (Tue) by sebas (guest, #51660) [Link]

I agree that tablets/smartphones won't fully replace PCs, but some use-cases are very well served by tablets, those mostly include media consumption (reading, videos, music) and "light" creation usecases (imagine taking a photo and uploading it, commenting on a blog, microblogging).

So for some use-cases, tablets can (and I think will, as more users purchase tablets) replace the PC, for others, they won't. Now if a user can replace her PC with a tablet depends entirely on wether the use-cases are narrow enough to not need a PC (e.g. no writing of long texts, coding, etc).

I've noticed this myself, since having a tablet, I do prefer this device to catch up on news, or play a game once in a while. For "real work", I definitely prefer a notebook or full workstation PC.