Most people doesn't care for maxing the performance of their CPU most of the time, and they care more about power consumption. This is why that's the default on

Most people doesn't care for maxing the performance of their CPU most of the time, and they care more about power consumption. This is why that's the default on Windows too. Also, if everybody would do it it will have impact on global power consumption. Anyone can change the governor if they want, it isn't complicated. Phoronix also could have change the governor and benchmark using the same governor, but for some reason he choose not to. This isn't the first time he does it, the comparison is a repeated theme in a series of articles he made. Unless I miss something, which very well could be, this doesn't reflect well on the site professional credibility.