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It depends. The thing with Windows is that you have exactly one way to use it, and if your computer is old and it's specs aren't good enough, too bad. Linux, o

It depends. The thing with Windows is that you have exactly one way to use it, and if your computer is old and it's specs aren't good enough, too bad. Linux, on the other hand, can be run with Gnome 3, or with lxqt, or with i3. You can even run a desktop Linux on a raspberry pi. So maybe Windows 10 beats Gnome 3 (although I don't know if it's true, I don't have Windows), but it definitely can't beat "Linux"

kllrnohj 9y ago
> So maybe Windows 10 beats Gnome 3 (although I don't know if it's true, I don't have Windows), but it definitely can't beat "Linux" This gets back to the question of what performance are you even talking about. It sounds like you're talking about the performance of random apps here rather than of the OS or any of its fundamentals. No matter what DE you run, though, you're not fixing Linux's graphics problems, so Windows will always beat Linux on that front until the driver & compositor situation radically improves. Wayland simply can't compete with WDDM today, and for some god unknown reason you still get X11 on many distros by default anyway. Running on a raspberry pi isn't some monumental achievement, either. The Pi has rather quite a lot of power. Windows IoT core runs just fine on it, which despite the name still has a graphics stack and all of that (more "windows lite" rather than "iot core")
- HumanDrivenDev 9y ago
  Windows 10 must be amazing then, because from win2k to win7 I've dual booted and always found Linux to be much faster and smoother for everything. "Random apps" forms the bulk of what we do with operating systems. windows being more performant on some level is all very well and interesting, but I don't care because it's sluggish when I browse the internet, watch videos or use IDEs.
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It depends. The thing with Windows is that you have exactly one way to use it, and if your computer is old and it's specs aren't good enough, too bad. Linux, o

by greenhouse_gas 9y ago

kllrnohj 9y ago
> So maybe Windows 10 beats Gnome 3 (although I don't know if it's true, I don't have Windows), but it definitely can't beat "Linux" This gets back to the question of what performance are you even talking about. It sounds like you're talking about the performance of random apps here rather than of the OS or any of its fundamentals. No matter what DE you run, though, you're not fixing Linux's graphics problems, so Windows will always beat Linux on that front until the driver & compositor situation radically improves. Wayland simply can't compete with WDDM today, and for some god unknown reason you still get X11 on many distros by default anyway. Running on a raspberry pi isn't some monumental achievement, either. The Pi has rather quite a lot of power. Windows IoT core runs just fine on it, which despite the name still has a graphics stack and all of that (more "windows lite" rather than "iot core")
- HumanDrivenDev 9y ago
  Windows 10 must be amazing then, because from win2k to win7 I've dual booted and always found Linux to be much faster and smoother for everything. "Random apps" forms the bulk of what we do with operating systems. windows being more performant on some level is all very well and interesting, but I don't care because it's sluggish when I browse the internet, watch videos or use IDEs.
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