L inux is full of virtual dials, switches and frobs that can tweak, monitor or break pretty much every aspect of the system. You can meddle with GPU settings in /sys/class/drm, run programs at higher priority with the nice command or find out (and change) anything and everything about a running system by rummaging around in the /proc directory. Just because you can do something doesn’t necessarily mean you should, though. As a beginner, in this case, you almost certainly shouldn’t. Distros go to considerable effort to ship with defaults that will work well for most people. And for the most part, work well they do.
What we’re going to do today, then, might beand instead of the GNU compiler Something that has only been easy to do for a couple of years.
