Linux changing the world more rapidly

Linux changing the world more rapidly

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Linux has changed the world rapidly. And its changing even faster than ever before.

Something is happening in the PC market.

Japan sees 25% drop in PC sales.

The rest of the world has seen 10% per year and acclerating.

Everyone is moving to super fast phablets as their window into the world around them.

Minimum 8 core phablet with 2GB RAM with 32GB eMMC, 2048*1536 is probably the low spec machines by end of this year. By this time next year, all of those machines will have doubled in features and sport 64 bit.

They are going to need a large variety of Linux distro to fill the niche being opened up for them to maximimise sales.

Ubuntu comes to mind, but all Linux distros can run efficiently on 2GB RAM

8 core and 32 GB eMMC. So there should be nothing stopping the mad race to port all distros to high definition phablets. I think if the China hardware vendors want more sales, they should actively seek out help with ports of Linux to phablets and then they can own the new desktop space by bringing out numerous application software, or just enabling the existing ones into the new tablets to get massive mega sales volume orders.
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Slow your roll, Tex.

Ain't no way you're going to be playing Borderlands pre-sequel on a "phablet".

Ditto for Titanfall, Battlefield 4, and any modern, push-eq-to-the-limit game. (In fact, you could say that gaming drives the high-performance desktop market just as much -- if not more -- as other silo cases.)

Then there's content creation. Anybody who thinks they can effectively edit a video on a phablet must have been injected with hipster juice, rotting their brain.

Or anything having to do with transcoding. For instance, I sometimes transcode a directory full of flac files to high-quality mp3 to play on my car stereo. How long would that take with a "phablet", even if it had the software to do it?

Desktops aren't going anywhere.

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A lot of these problems are not down to tablet per se.

Moving vast quantities of data around requires a big bus. Big bus ARM 64 bit server things exist. Not that you would want that in a tablet. Also beasts such as 64 CPU core ARM chips exist. Again, not something you would wear. The real news is that items such as 8 core 64 bits are coming and they have massive computing power but with a low power budget. And faster speeds. That is a game changer.

The 8 core devices I bought are fast already.

256MB USB file copy is as fast as any modern PC clocking up just a couple of seconds.

The next gen have USB2 built in and dropping sata because it is as fast as SATA and its USB compatible.

With eMMC fitted, they boot like SSDs and take about 20 seconds to boot, just like medium fast PC with Linux (a very fast PC boots in about 5 seconds with same Linux).

Video is an even bigger problem.

E.g. the intel Atom is tiny compared to a very basic

3D accelerator chip. So yes you could put a big 3D accelerator in a tablet, but then the cooling and 500W power supply for the rendering engines would probably do it some injustice.

People with big data shuffling requirements will always need the old style PCs for some time more. But the future is with tablets and for the majority where such extreme bus speeds are not an every day issue.

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I do agree with you that Linux is changing the world however not in the ways you have written. Desktops aren't going anywhere soon even though the tablet/phablet markets are growing like crazy. Those devices supplement traditional computers not replace them, at least for most people.

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Good post. I agree.

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