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The Performance of Ubuntu Linux Over the Past 10 Years (phoronix.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Tests were carried out at Phoronix of all Ubuntu Long-Term Support releases from the 6.06 "Dapper Drake" release to 16.04 "Xenial Xerus," looking at the long-term performance of (Ubuntu) Linux using a dual-socket AMD Opteron server. Their benchmarks of Ubuntu's LTS releases over 10 years found that the Radeon graphics performance improved substantially, the disk performance was similar while taking into account the switch from EXT3 to EXT4, and that the CPU performance had overall improved for many workloads thanks to the continued evolution of the GCC compiler.
after forcing systemd on us!
Writing sane optimized software makes far bigger impact than dicking with filesystems, schedulers and compiler optimizations to hunt the 0.05% extra performance. For example the Unity desktop is super laggy on low-end hardware, all due to bloated design.
If Linux fans find out that a distro is in any way successful, they're obligated to split it into a million competing forks and bitch about it endlessly.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
The intoduction of systemd has turned a once proud distribution into a nazified hot mess.
The only thing that matters is how snappy the GUI is, try measuring framerates of the change from 2D Gnome to 3D Unity. Also compare open source drivers vs proprietary at rendering the GUI. Users don't care about how many bits a hard drive is transferring per second as they will never notice.
Users do care about data rates to/from a hard drive. Ever install a huge game? Ever try to play a movie from disk while uploading photos to picasa? What about backing up data by copying between hard drives?
I can all but guarantee there will be complaints about how long it takes to copy 20GB of crap between drives. Or the fact that the video is stuttering as thousands of photos are being accessed for upload. You'll probably hear "This computer is really slow" when it's actually the hard drive as a bottleneck. Better throughput and smarter accessing/layout aren't things a typical consumer will talk about, but they certainly will appreciate.