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    What distro did you say you use? (midwest.social)
    submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 39 points 5 days ago (1 children)

    Any gui rendering is bloat

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days 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.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

    Aesthetics should never get as many points as functionality.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago
    1. 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.
    2. 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.
    3. 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.
    4. You don't need the extra parentheses around 0.5*a
    5. We're both fucking nerds and I love it