A Five-Way Linux Distribution Comparison In 2010

[zeb_]

Yep and there is nothing conclusive proven by anyone, cursing the most popular distro out there which is singlehandedly responsible for popularity of desktop linux today won't get Arch fanboyz nowhere really.

Well, if you carefully read my previous posts (which you probably did not), you would see that I NEVER bashed Ubuntu or any distro, and that on the contrary always asked for more investigating of the Arch "issue" because it could benefit ALL Linux users, not only one distro. But I know it is easier to dismiss all criticism by calling people asking questions by calling them "fanboys".

If Arch was the way of installing distro for average Joe, desktop linux would be dead and buried by now.

As far as I remember nobody said Arch was easy to install, and that is completely out of the scope of this debate or the original article. And you call people fanboys? Pot... kettle...

[linuxforall]

Yep and there is nothing conclusive proven by anyone, cursing the most popular distro out there which is singlehandedly responsible for popularity of desktop linux today won't get Arch fanboyz nowhere really. You can curse Ubuntu, call it bloated but it works and works good for myriads of users who install and use it on daily basis. Its well supported like no other distro and backed up quite good. If Arch was the way of installing distro for average Joe, desktop linux would be dead and buried by now.

Btw, all those who call Ubuntu bloated take heed, its meant to work outta box, no configure this, compile that but then if you are anal, be my guest as it allows all that as well. Also there are countless ways to install lighter version of Ubuntu as well as lxde versions that can go toe to toe with these so called anal favorite distros.

[zeb_]

And yet in benchmakrs, Arch never ever manages to surpass this bloated crappy distro called Ubuntu.

And yet, nobody has been able to reproduce the results of the article.
And yet, many questions about the test conditions have been left unanswered.
And yet, all the test flaws pointed out here have been ignored.

[linuxforall]

And yet in benchmakrs, Arch never ever manages to surpass this bloated crappy distro called Ubuntu.

[fanATic]

TBH Ubuntu is bloated piece of crap. Yes, I'm using Arch+Gnome, and it's great to see vanilla Gnome, compared to Ubuntu Gnome OSX wannabe. I didn't expect that Nautilus in Ubuntu can be so sluggish and laggy when scrolling files, also opening documents from Nautilus to Writer is slow as hell.

No matter what this comparision and results says, when using Arch, it feels snappier system compared to Ubuntu and it is snappier.

Let's see, base memory usage on clean install and initial boot up in Virtualbox:

Arch+Gnome: ~155MB

Ubuntu: ~220MB

[zeb_]

You could have been right, if you were posting before gedgon.

At the time I posted this Gedgon's post had not appeared on the site yet. I guess the figures delayed his post, depsite the timestamp.

Secondly, Gegdon did a terrific work that confirms my initial tests.

Thirdly, I still maintain what I said: Gegdon just does belong to the few people interested in this issue, instead of the idiotic flamewar.

[Cape]

Well one can see it this way, i.e. a pointless distro war.
On the other hand, we have a great opportunity here to understand what is happening, and this could benefit ALL distros, ALL Linux users.
Two choices. Too bad the correct choice does not seem to interest a lot of people.

You could have been right, if you were posting before gedgon.

[zeb_]

*Meanwhile, in Redmond, WA...*
"Popcorn, anyone?"

Well one can see it this way, i.e. a pointless distro war.
On the other hand, we have a great opportunity here to understand what is happening, and this could benefit ALL distros, ALL Linux users.
Two choices. Too bad the correct choice does not seem to interest a lot of people.

[gedgon]

Anyone is welcome to reproduce the results.

Hardware C2D [email protected], 2GiB RAM, Nvidia GF 275
Ubuntu: Compiz turned off, Nvidia drivers v 256.35
Arch: DE:KDE 4.4.5, WM:Openbox, stock kernel with minor patches for low latency desktop. Everything else 100% stock.

Tests where Arch supposed to sucks.








And sneak peek @ Windows vs Linux games performance

[PsynoKhi0]

*Meanwhile, in Redmond, WA...*
"Popcorn, anyone?"