What do you think about Linus Torvalds statement on kernel optimizations? CachyOS is build upon that kind philosophy, which seems to be critisized by the Linux kernel maker and main developer.
https://www.reddit.com/r/cachyos/comments/1h8nyzp/comment/m0ua3xk/
In the end, nothing will change, it just that Linus doesn’t want the “levels” as they currently are in the mainline kernel. But doesn’t stop other people (like Cachy) to optimise their kernels.
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I assume this is done to make Linux more compatible with older devices.
As it was said above, Linus do not like the idea of “feature levels” and not the concept of optimization in general. And he have a point: current state of AVX on Intel CPUs is a total mess and is not fitting into linear series of features and that’s just the thing i know, i’m sure there is something more like this.
Returning to optimization, i also agree it shouldn’t became the baseline. Linux is a project supporting extremely wide range of hardware and most optimizations are limiting it. And when your hardware fits you use something like Cachy. And when you use something relatively old (or non-x86) or want more stability (e.g. Telegram Desktop from cachy’s repo have crashes where flatpak didn’t) you can use, i don’t know, ubuntu or fedora. It’s fine and this flexibility is one of the advantages of Linux.
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