[adamtaylor]

The current obsession with tablets is maddening. Tablets are great for many things, but I still spend much of my life sitting at a workstation: a computer with a keyboard, a mouse, and (lucky me) a big-ass monitor. So, for me, it's just sad that everyone is now rushing to optimize their OSes for tablets, often at the expense of usabilty in a workstation-like configuration.

[downx3]

I think that there is middle ground to be had, with some sensible defaults, and sensible configuration options.

Make it good for the mouse, good for touch and good for keyboard! And let me mix it up a bit. And good for small and large screens alike.

The last time I tried Ubuntu, probably 11.10 - I could not use it without a mouse, just because of some wretched dialogues that I couldn't get keyboard focus on!

[j_baker]

Indeed. I think the thought going through most of these peoples' heads is "Workstations are going away. Everyone's switching to tablets. I'd better make my OS work on tablets, or else it will go away eventually too."

[tbatterii]

my thoughts exactly. Lucky for linux/ubuntu users, there's lots of choices for your desktop environment.