| >so it wasn't good on the desktop, but it ran. Which is why it would benefit from people who are trying to optimize it, and extend it to offer a good desktop experience. >It also uses very old kernels. It's based off the latest LTS release of the kernel. >Any Gnome or Qt app would have to be completely rewritten to support it Which is why my comment said that distros would work on backwards compatibility to avoid such expensive work of requiring a complete rewrite amd try to make it as seamless as possible. >and would probably have to run in the JVM Android does not use the JVM. It has ART, the Android Runtime, but you can still use native code. >and their reward would be to live in subservience to the whims of Google in supporting their product which Google themselves never had enough faith in to make it a proper desktop OS The benefit is being able to reap the fruits of the billions of dollars Google's is investing into the OS. Along with compatibility with a large amount of apps. As a bonus staple Linux applications may be able to installed to some of the billion existing Android devices today. Google may not have seen the benefit of supporting the desktop, but that's where smaller players can come in to play a role in trying to focus on more niche markets where there is less possible return. |