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, Cen

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.