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Why Should We Care?
To prevent users from being discouraged. If they are, they'll just go use something else.
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We need a user community.
- New committers are often users first.
- It is also not as interesting for (most) developers to work on software that nobody uses.
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We need continual improvement to the product.
- The user community is much larger and more diverse than the developer community.
- Real-world workloads are more interesting than just "able to boot" or "does well on synthetic benchmarks".
- Benefit: improvements to stability.
- Benefit: testing on hardware unavailable to most developers.