Ubuntu 26.04 LTS leads over Windows 11 in creator workstation performance
Posted by Fcking_Chuck@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 8 comments
Posted by Fcking_Chuck@reddit | linux | View on Reddit | 8 comments
Netw0rkingN3rd@reddit
I do wonder what causes the disparity - is it as simple as the background processes in Win11 or do the additional security features (Defender, core isolation, etc.) cause significantly more overhead?
idontchooseanid@reddit
Defender is a day and night when compiling software. You gain an easy 1.5x - 3x speedup when Defender is disabled.
Netw0rkingN3rd@reddit
Makes a lot of sense - I think I remember watching a talk from the developer of rustup where he explained that Defender scans files on fclose()
InkOnTube@reddit
I was always fiddling with Linux but it was never my daily OS until \~2 years ago when I fully switched. My company laptop is running Win11 and work is really sluggish comparing to my home Linux PC both desktop and laptop (Mint). I find this Ubuntu results nothing new really. I had some distro hopping phase but it felt every distro is faster than Win11.
More_Implement1639@reddit
Ubuntu > Windows 4ever
ColbieSterling@reddit
In other news, water is wet.
MelioraXI@reddit
Right. Linux is better than Windows for workstation? No way! /S
thefeedling@reddit
I recently wrote a few toy benchmarks in C++/Rust to be run in both in single in multi-threaded mode. I tried to best I could to be the most fair as possible and yet, I got something like 10\~15% extra throughput on Linux (Arch).
Not really surprised to see Ubuntu having an edge in CPU bound tests.
This is great nevertheless!