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Clear Linux Beats MacOS in MacBook Pro Benchmark Tests (phoronix.com)
To celebrate its 14th birthday, Phoronix.com used a 15-inch MacBook Pro to run system benchmarking tests on the following operating systems:
- Windows 10 Pro
- The latest macOS 10.13 High Sierra
- Windows 10 Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) using Ubuntu 18.04
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with the Linux 4.15 kernel, GCC 7.3.0, and an EXT4 file-system.
- Clear Linux 22780 with the Linux 4.16 kernel, GCC 8.1.1, and EXT4.
- Fedora Workstation 28 with updates is the Linux 4.16 kernel, GCC 8.1.1, and EXT4.
- OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with the Linux 4.16 kernel, GCC 7.3.1, and default file-system configuration of Btrfs root file-system with XFS home partition.
The results? When it came to outright wins and losses, Clear Linux 22780 was the front-runner 59% of the time followed by macOS 10.13.4 finishing first 21% of the time and then Fedora Workstation 28 with winning 10% of the time.
For losses, to little surprise considering the I/O overhead, Windows 10 was in last place 38% of the time followed by Ubuntu 18.04 being surprisingly the slowest Linux distribution 30% of the time on this 2016 MacBook Pro.
The article also reminds readers that "For those looking for a Linux laptop, there are plenty of better options..."
- Windows 10 Pro
- The latest macOS 10.13 High Sierra
- Windows 10 Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) using Ubuntu 18.04
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with the Linux 4.15 kernel, GCC 7.3.0, and an EXT4 file-system.
- Clear Linux 22780 with the Linux 4.16 kernel, GCC 8.1.1, and EXT4.
- Fedora Workstation 28 with updates is the Linux 4.16 kernel, GCC 8.1.1, and EXT4.
- OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with the Linux 4.16 kernel, GCC 7.3.1, and default file-system configuration of Btrfs root file-system with XFS home partition.
The results? When it came to outright wins and losses, Clear Linux 22780 was the front-runner 59% of the time followed by macOS 10.13.4 finishing first 21% of the time and then Fedora Workstation 28 with winning 10% of the time.
For losses, to little surprise considering the I/O overhead, Windows 10 was in last place 38% of the time followed by Ubuntu 18.04 being surprisingly the slowest Linux distribution 30% of the time on this 2016 MacBook Pro.
The article also reminds readers that "For those looking for a Linux laptop, there are plenty of better options..."
Where is the benchmark for battery life? One of the strengths of the MacBook Pro and macOS is the power management and long batter life. I would be surprised if Linux was as good.
Windows Defender is tuned for Windows kernel integration and performs well there. Although to be honest, recent builds of defender have been a hog as I'm assuming it's being a bit more aggressive at sandboxing for CPU prediction bugs.
That said, Windows defender doesn't seem to understand the WSL stuff at all, however it's using the entire system resources to real-time monitor disk reads and writes.
When running without Windows Defender real-time monitoring enabled, it seems to increase performance of the VM to near bare-metal speeds.
As i understand it, clear linux is a distribution optimized for modern hardware, with all packages compiled with newer compilers and a lot of legacy cruft disabled etc...
So it would be interesting to see how it compares to gentoo, which is also usually configured in that way.
It's also interesting how badly ubuntu fares in many of these benchmarks, despite being only a small step behind clear linux in terms of kernel/gcc versions in use.
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Not a fanboy at all. No, not at all.
My last Mac is a 13" MBAir from 2010. I'm about to sell it.
My main OS is x86 Linux (Xubuntu on my large ThinkPad and Manjaro i3 on my small one).
And while I really like Apple and appreciate some of the very neat stuff they do and I also like the fact that there is some very neat software available on mac, I am not a fanboy. Right now I find them way too expensive and apparently their new keyboards - allthough I really liked typing on them at the Apple store - need a redo to not fail because of dust. Not getting one of those. To risky at that pricerange.
When their current pricerange drops 400 euros across the board, then I might consider them again on my next hardware buying round. Which, as of now, is at least 4 years out.
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> So a super-lightweight quasi real-time IoT Linux OS
If that is what you want to call the standard Linux kernel. It does have decent soft-realtime capabilities, it is pretty light weight (I wouldn't say super light weight, but neither is WIndows or MacOS), and it certainly can be used for some "IoT" applications.
> beats macOS on it's native hardware 60% of the time?
No that's not the claim at all, perhaps English is not your first language? Clear Linux was the leader out of 7 systems tested, 59% of the time.
If you look at Clear Linux vs OSX alone, Clear Linux won 81% of the tests. If you look at the magnitude of the results, most of the losses were narrow, and many of the wins were by large margins.
> Give me an effing break, will ya?
Try working on your basic comprehension, math, and logic, then you might be able to make useful enough contributions to earn "an effing break". But as things stand now, please give the rest of us an effing break from your FUD.
> I'm no Apple fanboy and there's plenty of stuff going on with Apple right now to piss on, but performance and integration of their high-end all-out desktop OS into their purpose built hardware is still next to none, by a far margin.
Apple's OS has always been poor performing what are you talking about? If there are other bad things about Apple you want to discus, why don't you post those?
> Trying hard to find something that 'beats' them at that game makes you look like an idiot.
Again, what are you blathering about? Phoronix is not perfect but they've got a lot better over the years and have some interesting content now and again. Making these kinds of comparisons is their bread and butter. I mean given your embarrassing misinterpretation of their numbers you're one to be talking about looking like an idiot, but if you don't like what they've published then you can come up with your own numbers. Put up or shut up, as it were.
> So let's not be silly.
> Please.
Thanks that would be great if you would.