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Final Benchmarks Of Clear Linux On Intel: ~48% Faster Than Ubuntu Out-Of-The-Box (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What is clear doing that is unique and what are the trade offs?

Why isn’t this mainstreamed into other distros?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Clear Linux was maintained by Intel and specifically tuned to Intel hardware. The speed enhancement it has over other distros is only possible on a very limited set of hardware.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    The mentioned performance governor runs the CPU permanently at maximum frequency, which is obviously bad on battery powered devices and on devices with lacking thermal headroom. I think it might cause problems in virtualized environments as well but I'm not sure about that.

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    • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Ubuntu 25.04 on this server defaults to the intel_cpufreq scaling driver with the "schedutil" governor. Ubuntu still frustratingly defaults to schedutil or powersave governors even on servers... A rather silly default many will argue.

    Seems like this accounts for most of the difference from their charts, but still, cool

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    [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    what a good improvement

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