Scheduling service which optimizes Linux’s CPU scheduler and automatically assigns process priorities for improved desktop responsiveness.
System76-Scheduler feels similar to those snake-oiled game boosters.(They modify process priorities.)
This sounds like a bad idea to me. Having more stuff running just to figure out which of the running stuff to prioritize.
<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>
This is how OS’s work
Even if that comparison is exactly correct, wouldn’t it just mean that a userspace scheduler is redundant? You don’t want to have two pieces of software running at the same time with the same job.
But I don’t think that comparison is correct. OS kernels aren’t an external tool for managing process priorities. They’re how you create processes in the first place, so of course the OS is the appropriate place to manage them.
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.
The Arch wiki has a list of software which already does this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Improving_performance#Adjusting_priorities_of_processes
Pure NIH syndrome.
