> People, especially on the Linux side, need to stop viewing the world as if everyone still has desktop towers PCs tucked under their desks while disregarding the software issues and deficiencies that only plague laptops, which are the majority of the marketshare and have vastly different constrains than desktops.

Linux (especially the kernel) isn’t even tuned for towers. It’s tuned for servers.

The defaults make horrible optimizations all in the name of throughput > latency.