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SubjectRe: A desktop environment[1] kernel wishlist
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On Thu, 2014-10-30 at 11:34 -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 04:15:15PM +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> >
> > There are plenty of tablets around that aren't Android devices. There
> > are plenty of laptops that can be switched to a tablet mode for which
> > this wouldn't apply either.
>
> These "tablets" will either have enough battery that they will be a
> commercial failure because your arm will fall off trying to use it as
> a "tablet". Or it won't have a laptop sized battery, in which case it
> will be using a more advanced power management scheme than "suspend to
> ram" --- or it will be a commercial failure because no one likes using
> a tablet with a miniscule battery life.

And why would that be relevant?



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