Even With A $199 Laptop, Clear Linux Can Offer Superior Performance To Fedora Or Ubuntu

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 5 February 2020 at 03:48 PM EST. Page 6 of 6. 24 Comments.
Ryzen 3 3200U Distros

Out of 55 tests run, Clear Linux won 78% of the tests.

Ryzen 3 3200U Distros

When taking the geometric mean of all the tests that ran fine on all the distributions, Clear Linux was about 6% faster on this low-end $199 Ryzen laptop than the likes of Fedora and Ubuntu. See all the benchmark results via this OpenBenchmarking.org result file.

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