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performance by distro (lemmy.ca)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Does anyone know where to find some good measurements of performance differences between common distros (with like hardware and config).

I'm interested to see if some perform better than others due to optimization etc

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Not sure where to find those kind of benchmarks, but you may want to look at Gentoo. It compiles everything locally, optimising specifically for the hardware.

EDIT: Best I could find for benchmarks: https://www.phoronix.com/review/spring-2020-distros

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Former gentoo user here. Compiling everything yourself does not magically improve performance. You have to use keep track of USEFLAGS, ideally cherry picking for some package because some can cause bugs or performance regressions.

It can be really time consuming both compiling gentoo and trying different configurations. (But you'll learn a lot of compilation/ build system knowledge along the way)

My advise is that if you have time and want to experiment and learn, sure go with gentoo. If not and performance is absolutely critical then go with Clear Linux, otherwise take your popular distro of choice, package availability and ease of use are more important than a couple of % in performance improvement IMHO.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Thanks for the info!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

We know this, we're just trying to trick OP into trying gentoo 😭

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

That's how you turn the boys and girls into proper Linux using men and women.