Scheduling service which optimizes Linux’s CPU scheduler and automatically assigns process priorities for improved desktop responsiveness.

    • Amicese
      2•2 years ago

      <details><summary>I hold a similar opinion towards this software and <a href=“https://github.com/FeralInteractive/gamemode”><code>gamemode</code></a>.</summary> Application-level software externally managing process priorities is not a good idea; <b style=“color: green;”>games should be optimized independent of other software!</b></details>

        • @morrowind@lemmy.ml
          2•2 years ago

          From the article:

          Basically this Rust-written, MPL-2.0 licensed software aims to automatically configure the kernel’s CFS scheduler and dynamically deal with process priorities

          That is, it’s not an entirely different thing. It wouldn’t make much sense for system 76 to directly add it to the kernel, so I guess it’s a sort of extension…

  • Amicese
    2•2 years ago

    System76-Scheduler feels similar to those snake-oiled game boosters.(They modify process priorities.)

  • Helix 🧬B
    1•2 years ago

    Yeah sure, roll your own for everything, which has worked so great for Canonical in the past. Repeating mistakes other companies have made is nearly as dumb as repeating one’s own mistakes.

    There’s already lots of different Desktop schedulers with varied levels of performance, there’s gamemode and Linux on the desktop already has less overhead than Windows.