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It's a fair argument. Realistically it could cost about 1-2% of performance. Though ArchLinux is a tinkerer's distro, the same cannot be said for Ubuntu/Fedora
by Levitating 3y ago
It's a fair argument. Realistically it could cost about 1-2% of performance.
Though ArchLinux is a tinkerer's distro, the same cannot be said for Ubuntu/Fedora.
I personally think this would benefit me more than it would hurt.
Besides if you're really looking for performance, you want packages compiled for `x86-64-v3`.
CachyOS has those: https://wiki.cachyos.org/cachyos_repositories/what_is_the_cachyos_repo/ https://wiki.cachyos.org/cachyos_repositories/what_is_the_ca...
Maybe some day we will have x86-64-v3 repo's in ArchLinux.
- calamari4065 3y agoMy core thing is that the OS should by default be tailored to give a good experience for the most common user. The vast overwhelming majority of users will never need profiling, and should not pay the cost. As a developer myself, I find it totally reasonable and expected that I need to spend time and effort configuring my system to be a development environment. I'm doing something unusual and it requires extra tools. My grandma does not need a development environment. Even on arch Linux, the number of developers relative to the number of normal users has to be vanishingly small. Optimizing for the rarest of rare use cases doesn't seem like a great choice to me.