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Originally Posted by viceant
Excuse my ignorance, but people of Remarkable did an overwhelming work with Linux and very limited hardware, didn't they? So, we guess a Linux not-Android device, without the load of Android, would sports better performance, like that of Remarkable.
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Yes and no. It's not a matter of ignorance, it's just that matters are not easy.
When we are mentioning "Linux", are we talking
-- or the kernel?
-- of a specialized environment running over Linux?
-- of Android, as a specialized Operating System running on the Linux kernel?
-- of a Linux Desktop distribution?
A specialized environment running over Linux is not a Linux Desktop distribution.
Native software may (not always) run faster than software built on a framework.
A Linux Desktop will give you full flexibility but not an impression of increased speed.
A RK3188 is not an i7 - the former is 10 times slower, the latter drains your battery 10 times as fast.
As I wrote, the new hardware platform will probably be comparable to a Raspberry Pi 3.
You can run Raspbian on it etc., but if you try it, it will probably not be your choice for a production machine - this out of experience.
I am not really acquainted with what Remarkable did, but I understood they optimized native software.
EDIT: I believe the best of both worlds is to use Android in high portability cases - it was born for that -, and a Linux desktop interfaced to the device, but run by something not irritatingly slow, when a full desktop is required. (Then there's RemixOS...)