Originally posted by susikala
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But mostly I don't care, nor do most users. Sure different setups might produce different results, but this is a great start... and probably reasonably representative of the state of the world. It's a great place to have that dialog about how well Linux performs in the real world (on the desktop), and what the factors are.
If people go away from this to explore and tweak their little part of Linux (and contribute it back), things will get better. If this switches the dialog away from 'Linux is unquestionably awesome don't ever mention/compare/suggest a feature found in Windows' into a rational discussion of what end users experience (those who have no interest in tweaking their machine). If this starts to establish benchmarks or ways to have rational comparisons between OSes.... it's a good thing.
At the very least, it shows how Michael has expanded his fabulous test suite into a cross platform tool --- which is incredibly invaluable. Now we have another tool to test the performance of open source software across multiple platforms - how is that not a good thing.
So if anything is a waste here, it's the attitude that there is nothing of value -- be open to what value it does bring an we can build on that. This is just a start - being so critical is not helpful.
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