Between Linux or Windows which do you think will be first to have a viable OS for quantum computers?

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• AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Quantum circuits aren’t general-purpose computers—they’re added to conventional computers to allow them to perform a small handful of algorithms more efficiently. I don’t believe any of those algorithms would benefit a general operating system enough that an OS would be modified to require the use of one.

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  • sga@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    they are effectively GPUs

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    • thann@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      QPUs

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  • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Exactly. If they do ever become a thing, if thats even possible, it would be a special card like a graphics card.

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• FilthyHands@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  TempleOS

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  • mesamunefire@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The real answer.

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  • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    if we could build one for real, maybe King Terry will still be alive today

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• Limonene@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This is not how this works. One day in the future, when quantum computers have matured enough to do something actually useful instead of just quantum benchmarks, they still will not be general purpose systems.

  The situation will be more like video cards at the moment: it would be a subsystem doing something very specialized and limited, being controlled by a driver handing over certain jobs from the OS of the real processor.

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• DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  neither, you need to have a totally new architecture;

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  • thezeesystem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Finally we can tell the console people we will have PC 2!

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• StrawberryPigtails@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I suspect the Linux kernel would support quantum first. Somehow I don’t see a multi billion dollar multinational moving fast enough to beat some caffeine addicted teen looking for street cred.

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• slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  *nix for sure. No way MS will develop a quantum OS before a *nix variant is out

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• mmddmm@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Your quantum computer will have a device driver, that allows you to use it through your cluster. Just like your SAN.

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• 6mementomorib@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  To add to what most people are saying here, i also believe that quantum computing will evolve rapidly one day, with new algorithms being developed there is no telling if quantum computing will truly stay niche or specialized and can’t be expanded into general purpose computing. as tech is always evolving, i would argue that claiming that quantum processors stay akin to gpu’s. gpu’s are pretty much a sprecialization of the same stuff that builds a cpu, to my understanding. therefore, there is nothing truly proving that qpu’s can’t just evolve backwards into a parallel to cpu’s. besides, i can see it being favorable to keep only a qpu for most desktop platforms and only optionally a cpu that would be plugged into the equivalent of a pcie slot. that’s far fetched, but i also don’t think it’s too unreasonable.

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• SolidShake@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Honestly neither since we won’t have that in a PC sized containment for decades or ever.

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• Krudler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Quantum computing is a pipe dream, it’s never going to happen.

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  • nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    it’s happening but it’s probably not the thing that you think it is

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  • IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Just like building flying machines, its impossible.

    Just like humans landing on the moon, its impossible.

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