BSD-Powered helloSystem 0.8 Performance Against Linux On AMD Zen 4

[MadCatX]

That's a surprisingly strong show by Fedora, I guess that the more up to date packages helped out a bit there.

Is Clang finally on par with GCC in terms of OpenMP support? It used to do BSDs a huge disservice back in the day in some tests.

[Nozo]

Performs as well as I expected after reading the list of things the developer of this likes and dislikes. Developer is as out of touch with reality as this BSD distros performance is out of touch with modern systems.

He loves all the old stuff that "just works" and with "good usability".

[openminded]

When did Fedora become the king of Linux distros? Not only in terms of performance, but overall cleanliness, stability, etc.

It used to be Ubuntu, wasn't it?, long time ago...

It still is, for an average Joe, a home desktop user. A 500 points difference of of 10K score is nothing compared to amount of time and effort necessary to make Fedora look and behave the way Ubuntu does out of the box.
That's not applicable to Plasma though, but besides DE there are other nice touches here and there Ubuntu offers right from the start.

[kylew77]

I still say I would be interested in version over version benchmarks of any of the *BSDs.

[sophisticles]

Anytime there is such a large discrepancy the issue is nearly always clock speed or some SIMD not being used.

In this case, the Linux distros all have AMD's Boost cpu frequency scaling active, BSD has a known issue with this technology not always activating.

There's your performance difference.

[jorgepl]

It still is, for an average Joe, a home desktop user. A 500 points difference of of 10K score is nothing compared to amount of time and effort necessary to make Fedora look and behave the way Ubuntu does out of the box.
That's not applicable to Plasma though, but besides DE there are other nice touches here and there Ubuntu offers right from the start.

The only thing Ubuntu has in reality is the codecs. And maybe an easier installer.

[kylew77]

Anytime there is such a large discrepancy the issue is nearly always clock speed or some SIMD not being used.

In this case, the Linux distros all have AMD's Boost cpu frequency scaling active, BSD has a known issue with this technology not always activating.

There's your performance difference.

Yeah one would expect Python performance to be the same across OSes since it relies on the same implementation...

[andyprough]

Consistently losing to Fedora is bad. Losing to the chaotic mess that is Arch is worse. Ubuntu has fallen on very hard times lately. Kind of sad.

I'll bet Debian would have won this competition fairly easily if it had recent enough packages to support the hardware. Maybe the advanced hardware support version of MX Linux, since that's basically Debian with a few more packages bolted on top.

[Linuxxx]

When did Fedora become the king of Linux distros? Not only in terms of performance, but overall cleanliness, stability, etc.

It used to be Ubuntu, wasn't it?, long time ago...

True, Fedora is king!

That's why it doesn't even show up in the Steam statistics in the first place, because, you know -- because it's the shadow king!!

[openminded]

The only thing Ubuntu has in reality is the codecs. And maybe an easier installer.

More than that. Take a much faster initial repo sync, for example. The first run of dnf in Fedora in painfully slow, one can easily watch a movie while that... Oopsie, one actually cannot watch a film due to codecs issue, rage intensifies