Faster EOS script

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I created dumb script, to change some defaults, in order to make EOS faster. It is very opinionated, but I was trying to create something universal, easy to use and “safe” enough, for a desktop user.

I would be happy to hear about your tweaks for performance, so I could add them there.

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FYI, EnOS uses systemd-boot for new installations alongside GRUB.

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A lot of those choices looks questionable to me, but hey that’s best thing about EOS - you do you :upside_down_face:

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Could you post a bit of an explanation, what it does, and why you choose these options?

I’m a bit of a noob, and it looks interesting, however I’m not sure I understand what it accomplishes

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Thanks for asking, will add this to readme:

  • when package will be build, will be build with optimisations for your processor - by default packages are build for all processors
  • when package will be downloaded, if your processor supports it, your package will be downloaded from optimized packages repo
  • protection against processor bugs is turned off - as there is a small risk someone will execute harmful attack this way
  • dbus service replaced for one build for performance
  • ananicy installed so processes will not take too much processor power
  • some filesystem improvement to decrease writes
  • bonus: os prober enabled by default - as this is very common question for people switching form Win

All together should give you some performance boost. You can dive deeper by reading the script itself, and links there.

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Interesting… I looked at all of it — did the compiling mods (sounded like a very Gentoo thing to do) & the dbus mod. Had already done the fstab stuff & os prober quite a while ago. I’m thinking about ananicy, the optimized repo & the protection removal (not really sure if I want to do them). I would suggest including options so someone just running the script could choose how it modifies their system.

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Yes, this sounds promising.

@gladykov
Would you be willing to add this functionality into the script?

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I’m not the best script writer in the world, but I’ll take a stab at it. I also did the ananicy bit—I looked at it in more depth & it looked interesting.

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Nice! Will look into PR or post here :slight_smile:

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Could you also add instructions how to run it.

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Added in readme, thx