Windows 11 vs. Linux Performance For Intel Core i9 12900K In Mid-2022

[cchi]

So long as the binaries are compiled as equally as possible, the scheduler, background processes, and power governor should typically be the only things to affect performance. The fact Linux is measurably faster beyond margin of error, that suggests Windows isn't doing something right.

The binaries are not compiled equally as possible for Linux and Windows. Equally as possible nowadays is using the Clang toolchain for all platforms as Visual Studio also supports this.

The MSVC toolchain code generation is pretty poor. A big part of the performance difference will go away with switching to Clang. But likely not all software allows that compilation path.

[er888kh]

You do understand that you can set aside your IT Clowns with brown noses assigned windows laptop and use linux box to create excel files with anything from php to python ?
Besides people want to use python3 instead of excel these days.

People want to get home as soon as possible and start watching their favorite streaming service. I've seen many "normal" engineers fail to learn python, after actively trying to do so and trying different learning methods, and that's a "smart" person by society's standard. Now imagine what would the average office person do if they try to do so!

[rabcor]

Windows overall is just 4% slower in benchmarks than Ubuntu 22.04 + Linux 5.18. Nothing to worry about for anyone.

Ins't it though? last windows vs linux bench i saw windows and linux were basically neck and neck with windows winning some and linux winning some but mostly overall they were kinda tied (it was maybe even a little in windows's favor if anything)

Windows 11 is clearly a regression, i bet the additional spyware on top of what windows 10 already had is to blame

[birdie]

In theory. In practice, it's bugged sh*t.

I've not heard of a single person on Windows having troubles with it. It just works. What's more, it's worked with zero issues for over a decade for everyone who I know. Bugged shit could be in your brain.

[Volta]

Not bad. Linux fanboys usually say that linux is way more fast. Linux is like rabbit Windows is like turtle .
You think linux is maybe two times faster? Maybe three times? No, it's only several percent. Linux fanboys always lie .

Be happy, because there were no database benchmarks. Linux would wipe the floor with your toy even more.

[Volta]

I've not heard of a single person on Windows having troubles with it. It just works. What's more, it's worked with zero issues for over a decade for everyone who I know. Bugged shit could be in your brain.

Oh, let's not forget:

birdie

Volta continues to impress with uttering the things he absolutely doesn't know or understand.

Microsoft with its deep pockets and tens of thousands of excellent programmers spent almost a year optimizing the Windows 11 scheduler for ADL and in Linux it will work right away by itself ... magically I presume. No tuning, no rules, no intelligence required, it'll just work.

It seems Microsoft with its deep pockets and tens of thousand of lame programmers spent almost a year optimizing the Windows 11 scheduler for ADL and Linux wiped the floor with it.

It must be the magic /birdie

[er888kh]

I've not heard of a single person on Windows having troubles with it. It just works. What's more, it's worked with zero issues for over a decade for everyone who I know. Bugged shit could be in your brain.

Yeah people made the Windows blue screen of death meme because they've never seen it

If we only had more features. Fortunately, some very intelligent people are already working hard and we are not too far behind in competition. Take a look at https://github.com/MrGlockenspiel/activate-linux for instance.

[andyprough]

Now that Microsoft has stolen away Linux's secret weapon in Lennart Poettering, you can expect Windows 11 to trounce Linux distros in all future contests.

Either that or for Windows to fall even further behind, as it struggles and groans under the crushing weight of 50 million lines of its new "registry-D" code. One or the other.

[tildearrow]

Windows writes to disk all the time. The disk-LED of any Windows machine I have ever seen constantly flickers, whereas on Linux machines, it's only blinking when you really do know that you're writing data at the time.

Are you sure? In some machines this doesn't happen, so perhaps Windows is polling for activity in some device? (e.g. SD card reader)
Linux used to do this as well, but with 2-second interval.

[user1]

Windows has always been a hard drive activity hog. It might be Windows update, or other services like tiworker.exe. Is it because these services are bloated/inefficient, or simply because Windows is over engineered, I don't know and don't really care. But this is one of the things I don't like about Windows. I've experienced it countless times and if you don't have an SSD, then everything will crawl like a snail when it happens. Back when I had an HDD I've used Linux and managed to create a Hackintosh out of my PC for a short period. Both Linux and MacOS don't have this problem with excessive hard drive activity. On both there is hard drive activity only when you're doing something that requires hard drive activity. On Windows however, it may happen at random times.