Fedora vs. Ubuntu vs. openSUSE vs. Clear Linux For Intel Steam Gaming Performance

[zboson]

also if you miss things, please let us know, we can normally add things quickly

How about sending Michael some Iris Pro hardware for testing Clear Linux? E.g. Iris Pro Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, and Kaby Lake.

[Michael]

How about sending Michael some Iris Pro hardware for testing Clear Linux? E.g. Iris Pro Haswell, Broadwell, Skylake, and Kaby Lake.

I have the i7 5775c. And it's from PR department at Intel where I get hardware through, not OTC.

[Michael]

Maybe a bit off topic, but I just noticed something and I'm afraid i will forget to mention when apropriate, so my apologies. I love tor ead reviews/comparison of GPUs and drivers, but when testing steam games, it's not noted in any (?) article if you are using steam with native libraries or steam runtime. I think it would be useful for readers to include such information, and maybe even do a comparison if there's any performance diference between the two?

It's all documented and transparent, the most transparent there is, due to our test reproducibility requirements, etc. If you click through the graphs to the Openbenchmarking.org pages then can examine each test profile with what's precisely executed or by loading the phoronix-test-suite on your own system, etc.

[leipero]

It's all documented and transparent, the most transparent there is, due to our test reproducibility requirements, etc. If you click through the graphs to the Openbenchmarking.org pages then can examine each test profile with what's precisely executed or by loading the phoronix-test-suite on your own system, etc.

Thanks for the answer, I hope my post didn't came up as negative, that was not intention, it was more like suggestion, I don't doubt results presented in reviews .

[zboson]

I have the i7 5775c. And it's from PR department at Intel where I get hardware through, not OTC.

I think it would be more interesting to see these results with the 5775c than with the 7600K you used. As you showed here
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...skl-2017&num=1
Dota2 is only really interesting with Iris Pro. For that matter Iris Pro is the only Intel graphics hardware that is worth getting excited about. It would great great to see the results with Skylake Iris Pro.

[duby229]

I think it would be more interesting to see these results with the 5775c than with the 7600K you used. As you showed here
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...skl-2017&num=1
Dota2 is only really interesting with Iris Pro. For that matter Iris Pro is the only Intel graphics hardware that is worth getting excited about. It would great great to see the results with Skylake Iris Pro.

I definitely agree with you here. I mean, it's an Intel graphics processor that games well, who'da ever thunk it? It deserves attention I think.

[dungeon]

It would great great to see the results with Skylake Iris Pro.

I think Michael did that with Skull Canyon NUC couple weeks ago... seems just slighlty faster than this.

[gregzeng]

For a very small percentage improvement, this distro seems more trouble than it looks.

Had to Google, etc on details of Clear Linux. Distrowatch has few details. http://www.zdnet.com/article/clear-l...able-on-azure/ seems to mention that it has industry links to Microsoft & Intel.
https://download.clearlinux.org/rele...4/os/Packages/ indicates that it uses a REDHAT rpm base, rather than bein compiled from source, or Debian.

The one review that is on Distrowatch from a user seems not impressed. http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?res...s&distro=clear
"Clear Linux is very minimal, designed for servers and cloud deployments. Not a lot of tools available out of the box, but very high performance and easy package management.

Distro offers a rolling release operating system, everything updates as one big bundle of packages."

[balouba]

They aren't being deleted or anything, just sometimes the forum software spam filter acts up and puts it in moderation queue.

hah, ok thanks.

[duby229]

So did my kids friend do as his first Linux distribution. I wonder why, Solus uses 800 MB ram after boot while Debian testing Xfce 200 MB and Xfce is freely configurable and ready while Budgie is under construction. Solus has very small number of developers and not so many fast servers as Debian has. Debian testing is compatible to Oipaf and Padoka yakkety ppas too. Create a custom non debug kernel and use 300Hz timer, computer will run faster. Also disable and uninstall unnedeed services and modules, see systemd-analyze blame.

It's just because people have different preferences. Is Debian testing the only linux distro you've tried? I highly doubt it was. You're preferences drew you to it, while pther peoples preferences draw them to something else. It's all good.

Second of all, like you I firmly believe the OS itself should use as little resources as possible so that they'll be available for applications and games. But in todays modern world you anything less then 1GB is OK. I myself have been using at least 4GB RAM since way back in 2004 when the first socket 939 Athlon 64 came out. I'm at 64GB today. The bottleneck in todays world is storage. Even SSDs are dirt slow by comparison.