[frankreyes]

In my opinion yes, ECC should be standard.

ECC is expensive just because Intel had a monopoly over the server segment, and unilaterally forced desktop not to use ECC.

Otherwise people would use desktop computers as servers, and that would reduce profits.

At work, my workstation Desktop computer has ECC. The colleague's sitting next to me has on their screen sometimes kernel warnings of ECC errors.

And cases of bit flips happen every day, that's why some problems are solved by just restarting your computer or the software. I'd argue that many times we blame software bugs on pure hardware bit flips.

Here's a story of a variable name bit flip: https://alexbakker.me/post/did-cosmic-rays-break-my-linux-bu...

Bit flips usually affect operating system stuff, here's another story: https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/attack-of-the-cosmic-ray...