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Yes. It seems to me that Apple really, really wants the iPad to be sold as a computer replacement and likes to think the problem is how powerful the hardware is, which is an issue for approximately 0.1% of their users, when the real issue is that it runs a toy OS.

With Mac OS X on ARM, Apple needs to port OS X to the iPad, otherwise they should stop production.

I'm not kidding when I say that I would pay a literal 3x premium for an Ipad Pro that can run linux.

Linux should still be a subpar experience on the iPad. Apple is not going to write Linux drivers for their hardware.

Well iOS is also a subpar experience on the ipad pro. Besides Apple does not need to write drivers for it. The ipad pro is just a macbook with no builtin keyboard and with a 120hz mini-led touch screen. Work on getting linux to work on it is essentially a few months to a year away most likely. Apple only has to allow users to run non-apple OS on it.

These things are a trade off. Developers should be targeting a platform rather than the hardware. Why would the user be concerned about the app pegging their ram and how to deal with it.

not sure if i'd call it amazing, but it certainly does its job