No, the main point is they provide a reference image using mkosi, and you can clone kde-linux and trivially make spins. At some point I expect just about everyone is gonna find a spin which scratches all their itches and which they are devoted too.
I compile a Qt Quick application statically for the Raspberry Pi on a regular basis, and the whole binary is around 7 megs big. If you remove Qt Declarative (Your hello world just requires QtCore) it will be a fraction of this size.
So nice to see people fabricating numbers and passing them off as data.
Unfortunately it still feels cheaper to purchase a Windows laptop, and simply scrape Windows off its boot.
I object to being gouged for opting to run a certain system. The amount of invested time required to get modern Linux up on a non-psychotic (psycho like the Yoga 910) is a solid investment to the required baseline of competence required to be a Linux dev.
as long as you run a modern distro, and they are intel throughout, it should be relatively painless. Of course you have to do a little more background checking once you settle on a machine you intend to buy, much like the Lenovo Yoga 910/710 explicitly disabling ahci disk access and hence requiring a time sink (on your part) in order to get that resolved.
I intend to grab either an XPS, a Precision or a Lenovo t560. The x1 carbon is a very nice machine that most of my buddies (Linux people) gravitate too, but I purchased one which appeared to have a CPU fault and would start exhibiting visual artifacts (and instability) at 50 degrees Celsius, which does not require much of a workload. Pegging the fan helped to a limited extent, but chrome finds ways to skirt that.
I personally avoid discrete GPUs; Intel is good enough, I like running gnome on wayland (today) and having card switching work correctly is both a time sink and a maintenance burden best reserved for the devouted
The video does look cool. I keep on intending to use my primary Linux dev box as an outwards facing web server, but every time I take steps towards this, I realize how much I would be dropping my shorts in the process.
You people should be targeting professional photographers, smug mug and friends offer really limited functionality to content owners who really should control their own material.
It is Qt 4.8 based, there is clearly zero intention of remerging it. They changed the build system!
There are lots of people seeking to repackage Qt's work, add their own spin (pittance of work) and then attempt to profit off of it as a discrete product.
You voted with your wallet for a large screen phone, as people in the past voted with their wallet for large screen phones. You could have purchased the Z3 compact or some other device targeting the small device niche market, but you voted against it. Good job!