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What distro did you say you use? (midwest.social)

submitted 4 months ago by snpzrik@midwest.social to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 32 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I3 ??!!!??111 That’s bloatware OUT OF MY HOUSE

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 41 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Any gui rendering is bloat

[–] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Really, the metric we should be looking at is (f+a)/b where f is some subjective weighted measure of functionality, a of aesthetic value and b describes the bloat.

[–] Melody@lemmy.one 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No, (f+(0.5*a))/b.

Aesthetics should never get as many points as functionality.

[–] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago

That's a personal preference. Many people do care about aesthetics and I don't think invalidating their taste is fair. Hence, if you wanted to add factors accounting for that preference, you'd have to define some additional variable for it.
If a is a subjective measure of aesthetic value - as it must be, since taste is a subjective thing - you might as well include the factor already.
If a is normalised against some fixed scale, but bloat (having effectively no upper limit) is impossible to normalise, it would be more reasonable to increase f instead in order to model the fact that a larger distro may also come with more functionality.
You don't need the extra parentheses around 0.5*a
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