I always had Hedgewars installed on a previous system in case I was overcome by gambling addiction. However, with it came a ton of Haskell components on my system. In the current installation (Manjaro Xfce), I have so far done without Hedgewars because that is exactly what I wanted to avoid. Haskell is a programming language, I don’t use anything like that as a pure user. The question is whether all this stuff would somehow affect the performance or stability of my system. I would like to play Hedgewars from time to time, but I don’t want to clutter up my computer unnecessarily.
edit: As an example, Etcher comes to mind, which brings along the whole rat tail of Electron.
Well, it’s a rather light-weight game so it shouldn’t ever slow or clutter your pc. And as far it’s just a game, there’s no question of instability. I play half life 2 with play-on-linux in my pc. Just look at the graphics! I play it on my shitty ass laptop with Intel HD graphics 64mb. Seing your specs from your profile, I don’t think a small game like that could ever slow your pc. Could you kindly give me your full pc specs?
Well, it’s your haskell components that worry me. I haven’t used haskell that much. So I don’t have much of anything to say about that.
Well, seeing Your specs, i guess you don’t have anything to worry about. The myth goes “installing stuff slows down your pc”. That is partially true on windows. But on linux, you can install EVERYTHING without any performance issues. Because there are thousands of servers installed with thousands of packages. You won’t have ANY issues. If you don’t believe me, try it. Now I think you now believe that it won’t make any more performance issues.
Now for the term " instability", I don’t Think you will have any issues. You “could” have issues having multiple versions of C/C++ compilers as packages could get confused which compiler to build with. But as almost no packages are compiled with haskell, your haskell installation will stay safe and out ofyour way. But of course, you will have “temporary” sluggishness when compiling large applications. Other than that, you won’t have any issues.