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Lycoris Announces Desktop/LX Tablet Edition

Lycoris is coming out with a version of Linux to run on Tablet PC like devices. I shudder at the thought of how bad the usability of it will be. Windows XP is bad enough. From their overview, It looks like it's mostly regular Linux with an onscreen Qwerty keyboard. Yep usability will pretty much suck.

I'm really curious too, why people insist on carrying the qwerty layout into things designed for use by a pen? It's not an optimized layout for use with fingers and it's certainly not a good layout for use with the pen. There has been a lot of research into alternative mechanisms that improve speed and accuracy with single point input, but nobody includes them by default. I used to use Fitaly on my Pocket PC and it was definitely better.

Oh yeah, an interesting quote from the Lycoris product page, "The center of Tablet PC technology is the touchscreen". Yeah, OK a touchscreen, hmm.