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Originally Posted by HansTWN
If a manufacturer sees a market for a Linux tablet it should be quite easy to take the same or very similar hardware?
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Dell could've cornered the market on Linux tablets with the Inspiron Duo. Instead, it only supported Win7 (which wasn't made for netbooks or tablets) and had a massively defective motherboard design.
Edit: Kubuntu or any KDE-based distro could've used the Plasma Netbook interface, which IMO is more designed for touchscreens than actual netbooks. The icons are large, the interface is frighteningly user-friendly for Linux, and you have theming controls that are out of this world. It also runs much faster than Win7, having run both on one. All you'd need is a package of scripts or even just a shell script to set up the touchscreen and the like.
Course Linux is its own worst enemy; there are way too many ways it could be a lot more friendly to a low-skill user but isn't because all the Linux programmers assume that everyone has the same skill level. As a result you have a lot of unintuitive processes, stuff relegated to the command prompt that should be handled in the frontend, three rival software management schemes (with a fourth that should be dead if it wasn't for a few die-hard fanatics), and the like.