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One must consider the potential damages that can happen when the default is wrong, as it’s nigh certain that people are going to be careless and not change it.

One must consider the potential damages that can happen when the default is wrong, as it’s nigh certain that people are going to be careless and not change it. If the desktop PC has wrong default the performance is bad. Still functional though. If in case of VM the default is wrong we will read another headline about how N million customers of $company got their personal data leaked.

Crinus 7y ago
I think we'll read such headlines regardless of that setting :-P. I'm actually wondering if there should be some sort of premade "profiles" when it comes to default settings. Debian for example is used in a lot of contexts so perhaps it'd make sense to have a way to ask you what sort of usage you'll do when installing and provide different defaults based on that (not just at the initial installation time but also when installing some package, the default settings would be based on the profile you chose).
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- beatgammit 7y ago
  It's pretty easy to change a default, so it's completely reasonable for a gaming distro (say, SteamOS) to have different defaults than a server distro (say, CentOS). Most Linux distributions don't ship the kernel in it's default configuration anyway, so this would really only affect those who use the kernel directly from the source.
admax88q 7y ago
I can't imagine a desktop PC that is unlikely to ever be used to browse the web. Spectre and simliar mitigations like disabling hyper threading are required to properly isolate javascript. Defaults should be set for the lowest common denominator. A lay computer user shouldn't have to understand and make decisions upon things like this.
- Gibbon1 7y ago
  My feeling is current processors are completely fast enough to do what most users need. And it's programming comminity producing bloated slow frameworks that is the problem. Layers of shit are covered over with yet another layer of shit. Needs to stop.

Crinus 7y ago

I think we'll read such headlines regardless of that setting :-P. I'm actually wondering if there should be some sort of premade "profiles" when it comes to default settings. Debian for example is used in a lot of contexts so perhaps it'd make sense to have a way to ask you what sort of usage you'll do when installing and provide different defaults based on that (not just at the initial installation time but also when installing some package, the default settings would be based on the profile you chose).

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beatgammit 7y ago
It's pretty easy to change a default, so it's completely reasonable for a gaming distro (say, SteamOS) to have different defaults than a server distro (say, CentOS). Most Linux distributions don't ship the kernel in it's default configuration anyway, so this would really only affect those who use the kernel directly from the source.

admax88q 7y ago

I can't imagine a desktop PC that is unlikely to ever be used to browse the web. Spectre and simliar mitigations like disabling hyper threading are required to properly isolate javascript. Defaults should be set for the lowest common denominator. A lay computer user shouldn't have to understand and make decisions upon things like this.

Gibbon1 7y ago
My feeling is current processors are completely fast enough to do what most users need. And it's programming comminity producing bloated slow frameworks that is the problem. Layers of shit are covered over with yet another layer of shit. Needs to stop.