Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 24.10 Performance For Intel Core Ultra 7 Lunar Lake

[topolinik]

That's because hardware got much faster. Which naturely leads to crappy unoptimized software and crappy developers. No native development is needed anymore. We have desktop apps written in javascript. Web is a mess and web browsers are even worse peace of digital world. No one thinks about optimizations when there are 8/12 cores and 20+ threads in ultrathin laptops paired with 16/32 GB LPDDR5x RAM and PCIe Gen 4 ssds.

I still have my first laptop Dell C600 with original 256 MB RAM which i remember was enough for browsing, listening to music and such things. I even used it in youtubes early days and it was working. Now it's not enough to even draw google chromes logo

Agree with today overall quality of code.
Anyway, Haiku can do a lot of stuff running with 256 MB of RAM.
No, really.

[spyworld]

Does linux support Intel XMX extension?

[mrg666]

How is that a win?

What you are admitting is that the default kernel shipped with Fedora sucks and you have to go in and modify it to your liking.

With Windows there is no need to do that because it's perfect right out of the box.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd3bnzC1wxc

[sophisticles]

Yeah, that is another win for Linux. Do that in WinPOS

How is that a win?

What you are admitting is that the default kernel shipped with Fedora sucks and you have to go in and modify it to your liking.

With Windows there is no need to do that because it's perfect right out of the box.

[Volta]

So it is not surprising to see Windows 11 performing less than Ubuntu. In some benchmarks the performance of Windows 11 is abysmal at best....

It was the same with Windows 10.

[Volta]

I don't see the information if the Defender was turned off on Windows (that might be cause to some of the performance decrease). Also what about other CPU mitigation stuff? Was it equal between the 2 systems? Not "defending" Windows (or Linux for that matter), just thinking if the comparison was fair. Thanks.

The compariso wasn't "fair", because on the Linux side the slowest CPU governor was used, cgroups were enabled, partial debugging was enabled, Apparmour was enabled and so on. It's not Linux problem Windows has to use defender due to its design flaws.

[mrg666]

Refresh my memory, do you not use a custom compiled kernel?

Yeah, that is another win for Linux. Do that in WinPOS

[sophisticles]

All the people ragging on Windows are missing the point, none of these benchmarks means a thing unless you actually use the software in question.

Example, Ubuntu beat Windows by a considerable margin in the Blender CPU benchmarks, who cares?

When was the last time anyone use Blender rendering in CPU mode? People switched to GPU rendering years ago.

Windows won the Kvazaar ultrafast benchmark. who cares? Few people use this encoder for anything other than benchmarking.

It doesn't mean a thing.

[sophisticles]

Not surprising at all, Linux (I use Fedora currently) always runs like it is a higher grade hardware on the same computer compared to Windows 11. Thank you for demonstrating this to everyone, Michael!

Refresh my memory, do you not use a custom compiled kernel?

[sophisticles]

It's already not fair when linux is represented by the slowest and creepiest distro.

What is "creepy" about Ubuntu?