Benchmarking comparison with Windows/Linux
Hello,
I have a new laptop arriving soon and I want to do some benchmarking under Windows, before I do my Linux install. I then want to do the same benchmark tests in my fresh Linux install. Hopefully I can then tell if I need to tweak my Linux install in anyway. Can anyone recommend which software I should use? Primarily I want to test * 3D * SSD Anything else I should check? Thanks in advance |
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You could benchmark how easy it is to install an app from the moment you think of it until you're actually using it. For example, suppose you want to install a shooting game. On Fedora Linux you could do this:
yum search game | grep shoot There are eight results. Pick CriticalMass (I've never installed it or played it, I'm just picking one): yum install CriticalMass Depending on your desktop environment, you'll probably have a desktop menu item for it now. Or execute the command from a shell to play it: critter OK, what was that? Two or three minutes? Ten if you dither. I don't know how you'd do it on Windows, though if you download a free game on Windows, you'll have to worry about viruses, which could take weeks to recover from. If you drive down to BestBuy and buy a game, that will definitely take more than ten minutes. |
Thanks guys, but this isn't what I'm after.
After I install Linux I want to be able to compare the performance to Windows. I want some quantitative way of doing this. I've seen Geekbench, for example, which is cross platform - but won't analyse disk performance (I think). For disk performance is it adequate to write a script, using something like dd, to create writes to disk? Thanks, James |
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