Don't get me wrong, I get where you're coming from. I just hate the overall sentiment Here we have a person who ... observed an interesting change in a open s

Don't get me wrong, I get where you're coming from. I just hate the overall sentiment Here we have a person who ... observed an interesting change in a open source project ... built out a tool to carry out his own testing ' ... shared the firmware for set tool ... ran some benchmarks and visualized the data ... took the time to write an informative article outlining the though process, motivation and sharing the results And your comment essentially came down to > "Testing methodology bad, not representative of your personal usecase, should have been done different, data is trash" I think its incredibly rude and a steep ask to expect benchmarking to be done on a meaningful set of legacy hardware. Sure, legacy systems are a non insignificant portion of computers operating today. But the author used a system he had available and showed the results gathered. I'm sure his time is better spent on other projects or another blog article rather than benchmarking the same stuff on the n-th processor generation. The Linux community can be accused of many things, not caring about performance certainly isn't one of those. The beauty is, if you deeply care about a specific configuration that you feel like is being neglected, you can step up and take over some optimization efforts. If you don't care enough about that scenario, why should anybody else? Limiting this to that specific instance: the hardware is affordable to maintain, the firmware is linked. If you want to benchmark a different system of yours, go for it an publish an article. I'm gonna read it