Really, the metric we should be looking at is (f+a)/b where f is some subjective weighted measure of functionality, a of aesthetic value and b describes the bloat.
That’s a personal preference. Many people do care about aesthetics and I don’t think invalidating their taste is fair. Hence, if you wanted to add factors accounting for that preference, you’d have to define some additional variable for it.
If a is a subjective measure of aesthetic value - as it must be, since taste is a subjective thing - you might as well include the factor already.
If a is normalised against some fixed scale, but bloat (having effectively no upper limit) is impossible to normalise, it would be more reasonable to increase f instead in order to model the fact that a larger distro may also come with more functionality.
Really, the metric we should be looking at is
(f+a)/bwherefis some subjective weighted measure of functionality,aof aesthetic value andbdescribes the bloat.No,
(f+(0.5*a))/b.Aesthetics should never get as many points as functionality.
ais a subjective measure of aesthetic value - as it must be, since taste is a subjective thing - you might as well include the factor already.ais normalised against some fixed scale, but bloat (having effectively no upper limit) is impossible to normalise, it would be more reasonable to increasefinstead in order to model the fact that a larger distro may also come with more functionality.0.5*a