On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 12:06 PM Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
Last night, as I was launching Stellaris, I got the rare but occasional
Steam Hardware Survey popup. I'm always happy when I do, because I get to
represent gaming on Fedora platforms. ("I'm helping!")
Then, this morning, there's the discussion of btrfs compression options, for
which it would obviously be useful for us to know the typical Fedora
Workstation user's hard drive and CPU characteristics.
I know some of us have been thinking about implementing a system-info
metrics tool similar to what Endless presented at last GUADEC, or what
Canonical does for Ubuntu. I'm not ruling those out, but what if we had
something (a shell extension? something else?) that would unobtrusively
offer a survey, with a chance of happening on a given system maybe twice a
year?
I'd actually like to have something like this for all Fedora variants.
Server could have it in Cockpit, while desktop variants could have an
applet that would pop up a simple application for hardware surveys.
There's a number of tools in Fedora for getting good hardware
profiles. I know of at least hwinfo[1] myself.
[1]:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/hwinfo
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