trivial_wannabe

joined 11 months ago
[–] trivial_wannabe@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Thank you for the correction! Reading up on eBPF is fascinating.

Additional resource that adds to your secondary point that this is more than just allowing schedulers to be run in userland: https://github.com/sched-ext/scx/blob/main/scheds/c/README.md

[–] trivial_wannabe@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I looked into this a bit more and here is the summary: This is meant to show off a candidate kernel feature that allows for running different schedulers in userland.

Task scheduling has become much more complex as CPUs have grown in size and have had new developments in architecture, so the need to develop more complex and robust schedulers is steadily rising.

The kernel feature is meant to lower the barrier of entry for anyone who wants to try getting into schedulers, as well as enable quicker development iteration, by removing the need to completely recompile the linux kernel every time you want to test your code.

Read more at the main project's github: https://github.com/sched-ext/scx

[–] trivial_wannabe@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

YES. I would order ~3 more just for redundancy. If this one breaks, I dont know what I'm going to do.

[–] trivial_wannabe@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Why would I need letters at all?

keyboard without letters or numbers on its keycaps

[–] trivial_wannabe@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Fair point, but for someone who doesn't like tinkering and is afraid to make the jump to Linux, I still stand by the suggestion.

Different people value different things and that's okay.

[–] trivial_wannabe@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Honestly, just go with Debian Stable (bookworm) with KDE or Linux Mint. It is pretty stable and a windows like experience.

I have not tried VR on it tho, so can't speak to that.

[–] trivial_wannabe@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Fair point. In my defense I'm sick and made this on my phone while taking a bath.

[–] trivial_wannabe@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Oh good. I was worried that I had accidentally done something productive.

Also: your comment made me laugh out loud.