[SOLVED] Why the windows graphical interface is slightly faster than all linux DE?
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Another possible technical explanation for Everes' "feeling" is the two OS' possibly having a different mouse polling interval. I mean, says he mainly "feels" it when dragging stuff around. So...
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Originally Posted by dugan
I have certainly never seen what you are describing, but there's something you should know about: CPU frequency scaling.
Most distros ship with their CPU frequency scalings set to use the Ondemand governor, which causes the CPU to be downclocked to half-speed pretty much all the time. Also available, typically, are the Performance governor (which I always switch to immediately), and the Powersave governor (which Linux is usually set up to switch to if your laptop is running off batteries).
Interesting... I've never had to tweak the frequency scaling. I cheaked today and it's apparently been at "Performance" since my last update, so "Most" doesn't seem to include openSUSE Leap on desktop systems. I'll check later what's been set up on my laptop (running 32-bit Tumbleweed) as it would seem to make more sense to use "Ondemand" on that hardware. Now you've got me wanting to dig up some of my old benchmark programs to see how they perform should I change to from "Performance" to "Ondemand" on my desktop.
...[not replying to provocation] Too late by the looks of it...
How does the apple compare to that orange, thoughts?
Easy answer - squirrel.
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Originally Posted by jsbjsb001
...now, would anyone like a slice of my Chinese Pizza?
The part of Melbourne I once lived in (decades ago) had multicultural pride before it was fashionable. Not far from my house was an eatery proudly calling itself "Indian Pizza" (basically pizza served with an Indian accent).
To get back on topic, windows 98 was a little faster than windows 7 on the one computer on which I tried both; and both were slower than KDE 3.5. According to my infallible memory.
... 3. Your proposed test has Windows and Linux on two different PCs?!!
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Originally Posted by pan64
that may also depend on the [properly installed] video driver, the other [background] processes and a lot of other things [like RAM and swap].
So your question is meaningless as long as you won't describe the exact hardware, the installed software, the actual configuration and the steps to reproduce/measure the phenomenon.
All he needs to do is swapping OS'es and rerun. Make the video first!
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Look the improvements in linux to 1 min bullet mode in the online chess game, this mode requires a very fast browser and system and even a mouse above 4000dpi and a good mousepad, because any milliseconds have a positive or negative influence. I would like to highlight in this graph my rating peak playing on linux, this month I had a historical peak as shown in the graph, the main factor was the system performance, especially using Gnome, even though I was untrained in chess this peak was possible due to help of the system in conjunction with the improvements in browsers, it is noteworthy that most opponents use windows on online chess sites, even great masters as I have seen in several youtube videos, but there is of course a smaller portion that uses Mac and a much smaller using Linux. Congratulations to Linúx !!
Is this a single sentence? And what is the final conclusion? Is windows still [slightly] faster?
Yes. After the combination of updates fedora 31 + ff 70.0.1 + Nvidia driver 440.36 now I can say Linux have a better performance.
In the historical series since 2018 playing in the Windows the maximum rating was 1881, but oscillating between 16XX and 18XX and today I got new peak as shown in the chart.
It's noteworthy that most players use Windows to play.
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