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[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 101 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

In my experience, every computer is faster with Linux than with Windows. But if this measures just the processor performance on similar tasks I guess it's news.

[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 51 points 10 months ago

I think it comes down to the culture. A minuscule improvement to a file system is big news in the Linux community. There's also lots of academic interest in the performance critical parts of the kernel that you just can't emulate with a closed source model. Is anyone writing papers on how to obtain a 2% improvement in the task scheduler on Windows?

Linux dominates the server market, so even small improvements matter when you're talking about a server farm with thousands of machines or the latest supercomputer. Many, many people care about the scalability of Linux. On Windows, we say: NTFS? It's good enough. The user won't notice on modern SSDs.

[-] dgriffith@aussie.zone 27 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

A lot of the software components under the hood in Linux are replaceable.

So you have a bunch of different CPU and disk IO schedulers to suit different workloads, the networking stack and memory management can be tweaked to hell and back, etc etc.

Meanwhile Windows Server 2022 has...... ?

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