On Freitag, 25. Januar 2019 17:21:33 CET Jimmy Berry wrote:
On Friday, January 25, 2019 8:17:03 AM CST Carlos E. R. wrote:
Well, in car NEDC testing, the car is tested as is (meaning as the car model is officially described, out of the factory). What to remove is specified in the test docs. Otherwise, no optimizations.
This is the point people seem to miss with "out-of-box" and why people care. There are plenty of users that are not interested in tuning every part of the system to get the best performance. They just want to install it and use it.
If one system comes without an active firewall and the other does, then the whole comparison is absurd. A sports car is faster than a truck, but they address different needs. If these "benchmarks" at least mentioned the *relevant* differences between the systems, so a user could select which distributions are eligible at all for their use case, there would be a point, but as presented the only difference between these are "speed".
As such out-of-box is very relevant. In fact if you are comparing distros that's a major part the default configuration. Clearly if I try hard enough I can make distros very similar to each-other as they are running the same upstream software and as such I would get more similar results. At that point you are benchmarking the upstream software and not the distro.
Crappy defaults are a serious problem, no one is expert in everything nor wants to be.
Its not crappy defaults, but different choices. Most of these choices are tradeoffs, there is no "best", but only "appropriate". Regards, Stefan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org