Often times when testing different Linux distributions or comparing Windows vs. Linux it’s on leading flagship desktop or server hardware, but today we are looking at the Ubuntu vs. CachyOS vs. Windows performance at the opposite end of the spectrum. With the new CHUWI UniBook $449 laptop powered by Intel Core 3 Wildcat Lake and with 8GB of system memory, here is a look at how those three operating systems compare across a variety of workloads.
I must say, the results are more varied than I expected.
All operating systems were updated and at their defaults during the benchmarking process.
So it’s really a KDE vs GNOME thing?
(ducks and runs)
Seriously, the article doesn’t say after 2 pages.
Anyhow, the results are as expected: both Linux distros definitely perform better than Win11, but between them there’s little difference.
🤷both Linux distros definitely perform better than Win11
Not exactly, at least the final results show that Windows 11 is in between both distributions:
I personally doesn’t care much about Windows and am surprised the gap between Ubuntu and Cachy is this big.
I love the fact that these get benchmarked, but I wish that Phoronix made the difference between “lower is better” scores and “higher is better” scores much more apparent.
Maybe put a gradient on the bars so we can see which one is better at a glance.
Or change the “lower is better” layout so the bars are right aligned instead of left aligned.
My Plex server is running Fedora on a Sandy Bridge Intel chip. Would you like some benchmarks from that? Warning: it may catch fire… Lol.
