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Originally Posted by mdp
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...)
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It is not necessary to have a full desktop environment under Linux, only the necessary tools.
You can keep something very light and powerful with Linux. You haven't an abstraction layer (like Android) that consumes time, CPU and memory.
For example, with the Raspberry Pi, you can transform it in a Personal Video Recorder (PVR) with a USB tuner and (for example) LibreElec (OSMC) based on Debian with only the useful tools, the performance is present.