Ubuntu 23.10 Is Maxing Out Zstd Compression For Its Kernel Build

[shmerl]

I found this thread where someone proposed changing the default from xz to zstd: https://lists.debian.org/debian-deve.../msg00200.html

Seems the consensus from that thread is that they don't want that, as the space advantages of xz helps mirrors and BW.

I think the key comment was:

> Ubuntu already did it years ago

I'm not convinced by any counter arguments in that thread. Sounds more like the usual Debian inertia to me.

[Jabberwocky]

These kind of optimisations are the reason why Ubuntu is better for the desktop than Debian.

Low quality bait

[geearf]

1.3x less disk space used (548MB vs 742MB)

How do you get 130% less disk space used? Isn't it like 26% less? Even if you were doing 742/548 (but why would you?), that would still only be about 35%.
Is math that hard?