Fedora vs. openSUSE vs. Manjaro vs. Debian vs. Ubuntu vs. Mint Linux Benchmarks

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Fedora vs. openSUSE vs. Manjaro vs. Debian vs. Ubuntu vs. Mint Linux Benchmarks

Honoring the latest round of Phoronix Premium reader requests is a fresh six-way Linux distribution comparison. Tested were Manjaro 15.09 and Linux Mint 17.2 and then the latest development versions of Fedora 23, openSUSE 42.1 Leap, Debian Stretch Testing, and Ubuntu 15.10.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=22193

[oleid]

Something seems severely wrong with openSUSE 42.1 Leap Beta. XFS and the CPU tests shouldn't be that slow! Mint uses the same compiler, thus the CPU tests should be similar.
Furthermore, why is the chipset on openSUSE reported differently on the first page?

[Michael]

Something seems severely wrong with openSUSE 42.1 Leap Beta. XFS and the CPU tests shouldn't be that slow! Mint uses the same compiler, thus the CPU tests should be similar.
Furthermore, why is the chipset on openSUSE reported differently on the first page?

It's reported differently based on their PCI ID string database, kernel, etc.

[Daktyl198]

Should I even bother looking past the first page?
"Out of the box performance" >> Proceeds to use a beta version of every distro except Linux Mint and Manjaro. In the latter, it's not that hard to use one command to switch to the unstable repos after your install:
sudo pacman-mirrors -gb unstable

And BOOM, mesa 11.

As for Linux Mint, it's as simple as checking a box in your update manager to get to the "beta" repository...

But, we all know how you feel about Manjaro and Linux Mint, so I'm just falling on deaf ears.

[shawnsterp]

Correct me if I am wrong, but it looks like there were several different desktop environments were used, but they did not seem to greatly impact the test results. Am I correct in this?

[nils_]

The table is completely unreadable. Isn't there a way to add horizontal scrollbars?

[oleid]

The table is completely unreadable. Isn't there a way to add horizontal scrollbars?

In Firefox, there are such scrollbars.

[profoundWHALE]

Correct me if I am wrong, but it looks like there were several different desktop environments were used, but they did not seem to greatly impact the test results. Am I correct in this?

They shouldn't have a large effect. I'd say it's a combination of a variety of factors due to the recipe of packages/versions installed, just like a taste testing competition.

[nils_]

In Firefox, there are such scrollbars.

Must be a chrome problem then. Disappointing.

[persept]

Manjaro defaults to Linux kernel version 3.18... I just installed the latest version yesterday. You have to go into the additional kernel manager and select a newer one. That and Mesa 11 makes this really not fair at all for Manjaro.