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Originally posted by Michael View PostI love Fedora a lot and always have, but as can be seen from the articles, I generally only use it for benchmarks around the time it's actually released when the packages are still fresh namely because:
- Fedora Rawhide packages ship with a lot of debug cruft that can affect the performance so using those experimental packages unfortunately doesn't work out well.
- Ubuntu is convenient for kernel tests with their Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA where they also package the daily Git kernels. As far as I know there isn't any similar archive for Fedora. I can easily build my own Git kernel, but when (re)installing systems often, this is very convenient, plus if people have a question about my kernel configuration or want to also test the latest kernel, I can simply tell them to go to the PPA.
I think those are my two main gripes these days but yeah aside from that have been using Xubuntu a lot lately.All opinions are my own not those of my employer if you know who they are.
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Originally posted by Ericg View PostValid points about Rawhide and the Mainline PPA being available. In that case yeah I would say move to X/Kubuntu, or Linux Mint (Debian edition maybe? Is that compatibile with the Mainline kernel packages?). Just because dealing with XMir alone is going to start messing up your benchmarks and its only going to get worse as things move on
i Like to See a Linux Mint MATE (or just Linux Mint VS Linux Mint Debian) Vs Ubuntu Mir Vs Windows
we know Xmir even makes puppies cry
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Originally posted by Ericg View PostValid points about Rawhide and the Mainline PPA being available. In that case yeah I would say move to X/Kubuntu, or Linux Mint (Debian edition maybe? Is that compatibile with the Mainline kernel packages?). Just because dealing with XMir alone is going to start messing up your benchmarks and its only going to get worse as things move on
There may not be any huge differences between desktops or distributions: the previous distro comparison showed a benchmark variance of only a few FPS between distributions, though the previous desktop comparison did show Gnome and KDE trailing by 15%-35% on a couple of benchmarks.
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Originally posted by chrisb View PostBoth Unity/Mir and Gnome/Wayland will run within Ubuntu, so it will continue to be possible to benchmark both setups against each other. The Xorg packages aren't going to be removed. Having said that, the more data points the better. If it is possible to benchmark other distributions then go for it. Debian sid might the easiest, obviously being Ubuntu upstream, and it should already have all the latest packages including kernel.
There may not be any huge differences between desktops or distributions: the previous distro comparison showed a benchmark variance of only a few FPS between distributions, though the previous desktop comparison did show Gnome and KDE trailing by 15%-35% on a couple of benchmarks.
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Originally posted by Michael View PostIt's generally a lot more effective when people provide test requests / feedback / suggestions prior to writing a given article than giving feedback afterwards when nothing can be changed until the next time such tests are done...
Originally posted by sireangelus View PostTo Michael: i think you're missing the purpose of latency benchmarking. It's not only to have a average reading, but what matters most is how many, how frequent and the severity of the frame spikes, because that's the major cause of "perceived lagging"(beyond networking), usually a slightly slower frame average but with a much more stable frame latency is preferable over an inflated fps average with lots of spikes(like we see on this review, windows have It worse.)
This is also why I prefer to play LoL on Linux even if the avg on windows is way higher.. I have frame latency problems even with VSync on and an apparent rock-solid 60fps
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Originally posted by Calinou View Post+1, it would be better if the benchmarks were done on Xubuntu with compositing disabled.
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Quoting myself from the other frame latency topic:
Originally posted by curaga View Post@Michael
It's completely possible to measure this for all OpenGL apps just like the id engines do for their own frames. I've been sitting on a 84-line library that does just that, maybe I should publish that on github or something. Linux-only though.
The other thing, please do the other common representation of the latency graphs - a sorted graph, with marker lines for 50%, 90%, and 95% thresholds.
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