While looking at the Ubuntu website today i was inspired by a particular page showing an Android mobile phone running Ubuntu desktop connected to a full size display with keybiard and mouse.
This makes so much sense to me. Instead of buying a desktop computer and a mobile device and then keeping the two in sync, why not just get a really powerful mobile that becomes a desktop when you need it, and turns back in to a mobile when unplugged from your desktop peripherals!
Arguably Ubuntu is the only OS that seems to have made a combined UI that works equally well on mobile systems as well as desktops, even televisions! Microsoft has tried to do this with windows 8, but so far appears to have failed. Apple has a different, but very good approach, with a separate desktop optimised OS and mobile optimised OS.
There is only one really annoying thing about ubuntu for me, and i would be so glad if a Linux genius could help me with this. Why oh why does Ubuntu play quicktime video at half resolution? I know it is possible to play quicktime video in ubuntu perfectly as it works a treat in the Ubuntu based Linux Mint. What do i have to do to get ubuntu to play quicktime video at full resolution?
Actually there is one other thing that annoys me about ubuntu, and that is it's future direction. Cononical (the makers of Ubuntu) appear to be removing menus in favor of a search keyword. If i wanted to type a menu entry instead of click on it, I'd go back to DOS.
However it just might come to pass that Apple gets this right first. How about an iPad that becomes your full desktop computer and presents you with a different UI just like Ubuntu for Android, but with the additional benefit of a Hi-DPI display as a second monitor?
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