7-Way Linux Distribution Comparison For Summer 2016

[linuxforall]

I also wonder Clear Linux is Intel backed and yet uses CPUFREQ over Intel's own pstate, how about switching all distros to cpu-freq and then maybe we find out how pstate performs.

[eydee]

It would be nice if the same tests were also run on a full AMD system (where possible) and also published. This currently mostly shows that Intel-optimized stuff runs well on Intel, which is not surprising.

[staggerlee]

Antergos is pure Arch with just some themes and using Gnome, cant' get any closer and unlike Manjaro, uses the same Arch repos and none of their own except for themes.

I still seem to like Manjaro better.

[linuxforall]

I still seem to like Manjaro better.

Manjaro is good as well but Antergos is just Arch with theme, nothing else.

[mmstick]

Solus has responded with the following.

[ikey_solus]

Solus has responded with the following.

I responded with that on the last page too..

[tomtomme]

I am actually interested what happened in Tumbleweed case. Do you have any details? Is it the newest GCC6 build?

yep - the snapshot with gcc6 was released today and I am happily running and writing from it
one regression though: thunderbird and chromium are crashing - a fix however is in the pipeline and should come tomorrow I hope...

[TeoLinuX]

I wonder what happened to Antergos/Arch.
It performs well on graphic tasks, but quite poorly on CPU / disk tasks.
Being bleeding edge rolling distro, I expected it to perform among the best ones.

do you think it's just a matter of optimizations and configurations? Is Antergos much vanilla on these aspects?

[linuxforall]

I wonder what happened to Antergos/Arch.
It performs well on graphic tasks, but quite poorly on CPU / disk tasks.
Being bleeding edge rolling distro, I expected it to perform among the best ones.

do you think it's just a matter of optimizations and configurations? Is Antergos much vanilla on these aspects?

Antergos does no change or optimizations on their own, their kernel is pure Arch and so is their scheduler, they use CFQ as does Arch. Probably regression in latest kernel compared to older kernel of Ubuntu. Otherwise Antergos holds its own in games matching Clear Linux.

[Guest]

The team has no access to Skylake hardware - so I'm actually pleased to see some testing from Phoronix as it identified areas of weakness. We're now updating
our mesa, libdrm and xf86-video-intel to accommodate. I only have Haswell and Broadwell locally for testing

Edit: More on this .. https://plus.google.com/+Solus-Proje...ts/Ag4drQSJ1Bt

Good news On an unrelated note, can't wait for Solus 1.2.1. I want to give Solus a try but was waiting for disk encryption at install time.

...Start with a minimal distro, like Debian testing Xfce.

What an unheard of and unexpected combination