Disregarding custom OS that will probably be made first.

  • Limonene@lemmy.world
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    I think quantum computers may be impossible. But if they are possible, they will be a USB/PCIe accessory that works alongside an ordinary processor running an ordinary operating system.

    I expect Linux will have a driver for quantum computers before Windows.

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        What exists is a weird engineering experiment that runs some synthetic tests that are designed to return a number that you plot on a graph which you show your investors. And it costs all the money in the world and then some.
        Not only there is no practical use for all that, there are debates about what the practical uses might even be in theory for something that nobody really sure is happening.

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          regular computers were useless except for basic addition and multiplication for a long time, and now we have the internet. quantum computers, when they are ready, will be capable of doing calculations much faster than it’s even physically possible for normal computers to. just because it isn’t ready yet doesn’t mean it will never be useful. your take is shortsighted and ignorant of how developing new stuff works.

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          Sometimes ignorance makes its origins obvious, but literally every single part of your viewpoint can be disproven by just reading any science communication website, much less the actual papers behind the quantum processors currently in commercial operation so how you came to believe what you believe is just a complete mystery.