cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/linux/t/646160
With currently reviewing the HP Z6 G5 A workstation powered by the new 96-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX Zen 4 processor, one of the areas I was curious about was how well HP’s tuned Microsoft Windows 11 compares to that of Linux.
Ubuntu comes with various drivers, kernel patches, and configuration options that other distros lack or have their own replacement for. It also comes with a different kernel version (6.5 for 23.10) compared to other Linux distros out there.
I can’t tell you if these changes affect performance much, but there may be big performance differences between distros for specific workloads. Running the same tests on Arch or OpenSuse may produce different results, you can’t assume all Linux performs the same.