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Do 50% of users need to be able to: * modify system services? * run a compiler? * add custom package repositories? * change the default shell? I believe th
by nemetroid 2y ago
Do 50% of users need to be able to:
* modify system services?
* run a compiler?
* add custom package repositories?
* change the default shell?
I believe the answer to all of the above is "no".
- redox99 2y agoAll those things are free in terms of performance though.
- Brian_K_White 2y agoI don't see how this applies. Some shell has to be the default one, and all systems don't pick the same one even. Most systems don't install a compiler by default. Thank you for making my point?
- nemetroid 2y agoAll these things are possible to do, even though only developers need them. Why shouldn’t the same be true for useful profiling abilities? Because of the 1-2% penalty?
- Brian_K_White 2y agoAre you serious? Visa makes billions per year off of nothing but collecting a mere 2%-3% tax on everything else.
- oasisaimlessly 2y agoI don't see how Visa is in any way relevant here.
- Brian_K_White 2y agoI don't see why not. The whole point of an analogy is to expose a blind spot by showing the same thing in some other context where it is recognized or percieved differently.
- sfink 2y agoVisa sells money for money, skimming off a percentage. CPUs spends cycles for features (doing useful work). Enabling frame pointers skims off a percentage of the cycles. But it's the impact on useful work that matters, not how many cycles you lose. The cycles are just a means to an end. So x% of cycles is fundamentally incomparable to x% of money.