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Even though different Linux distros are often fairly close in terms of real-life performance and all of them have a clear advantage over Windows in many use cases, we can't reject the fact that Arch Linux has undoubtedly won the competition. And now I'm so glad to have another reason to proudly say "I use Arch btw"

::: It was a joke of course :::

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

FreeBSD's boot speed is just behind arch a little bit (on HDD).

But Windows 8 (with fast startup) on an core 2 duo machine with 1G of RAM boot faster than any debian, ubuntu. (the boot speed decrease when you upgrade hardware lol :) )

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I had a Windows 8 machine (8G of RAM) in the past. It booted in like 15 seconds. But on Windows 10 or Linux it took more than a minute. Why didn't Microsoft brought this feature to Windows 10?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This very fast startup thing. On Windows 10 and 11 it doesn't really work

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

No it works. When on my windows 10 machine boots in < 15s. When off it takes a minute (HDD)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Hmm in my case it was the same 1 minute +

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Where OpenSUSE? :(

[–] [email protected] -1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

You know Arch users can just tattoo it on their forehead. That way they don't even have to say 'btw, I use arch'. People can read it on their face.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Isn't that trope getting a little bit boring?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Nah it's fun to say it yourself. And it's even better to say it when there's an advantage over all the other distros

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Does anyone have a similar video but only for graphics. I want to know more about the floating point ops, OpenGL and DirectX with Wine compared across those 4.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I don't remember such videos. Though there should be Windows vs Linux benckmarks for popular games that support both operating systems (natively or with Wine)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Windows just losing in nearly every metric. Why am I not surprised? However fedora? What's going on?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

selinux probably

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I use Fedora btw

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Long live to my boi Arch

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