Arch Linux vs Manjaro vs Garuda vs EndeavourOS - Speed Test!

Arch benchmarks and speed testing featuring; boot speed, video render, file transfers, and much more! What Arch Linux is the best? Does BLOAT slow ya down? Let's find out...

00:00 - The Distros!
01:44 - Support TechHut!
02:14 - Boot and Reboot Tests
03:10 - Resource Usage
03:56 - App Launch and GIMP
04:27 - USB 2.0 File Transfer
05:01 - Kdenlive Video Render
05:45 - Synthetic Benchmarking
08:49 - Gaming Performance
09:17 - Kernel Upgrade
10:26 - So overall...

Full results:

Distributions and info:
DE: Xfce 4.16 Kernel: 5.10-5.11
All software latest version as of April 1, 2021.

My Workstation (PAID LINKS)

[jacanchaplais]

Have you read Garuda's statement on memory usage? They say they try to use as much as possible, as it costs nothing to give up RAM but speeds everything up until it's needed elsewhere. So the fact that Garuda has both the highest memory usage, as well as some of the best app response and performance scores, is not contradictory, it's what you should expect.

[ernon]

Damnn it is almost as it was Arch vs Arch vs Arch vs Arch :O I know it isn't entirely true, but yeah :D

[fawzanfawzi]

All distros here perform virtually the same so this is my recommendation for new users:

Arch: If you want minimal and total control of your linux. The installation is not that hard but it takes some times to do.

Manjaro: If you want easy installation and don't want to deal with Arch's "quirks." It has its own package repository that promises stability.

Garuda: If you want easy installation and use the Arch repository directly. Also if you want a cool looking desktop OOTB.

Endeavour: Same as Garuda but without the performance tweaks which are mostly negligible.

[psour]

Loved Manjaro but now I'm a big fan of Endeavour OS because it's basicaly a real Arch Linux with good tools to install and setup. The performance is awesome.

[AliRadhi]

I really respect all of these distros but for daily driver and ease to use I prefer the manjaro, is the most polished Linux distro based on arch, even if there are small gap in speed between the distro, at least on my high specs machine is not noticeable.
Again thank you for your great videos and your efforts to presents to us the best Linux videos in best quality and content.
I'm following you from middle east 👍

[ltb]

you really hardwork alot bro.... Deserves more support 💖💖💖

[matparedovich]

You should do one of Gentoo vs Arch, to see if compiling the programs yourself makes a difference

[unfa]

Fantastic work. Thank you for making such a detailed comparison. I have expected more discrepancies between these distributions, and it was really interesting to see how close they are most of the time, and then - they weren't!

[SuperHardik]

librewish and dragonfire are main heros behind Garuda. Also Naman, TNE, SGS, petsam, tbg and many more team members done great work on Garuda. Salute to whole team.

[KingMasadaX]

I knew Garuda wouldn't be the best for a speed test, especially running Dra60nized, beauty isn't free, I was more shocked a few operations Garuda was in the top 2.

[Leo-fgkc]

Довольно любопытные тесты. К тому же я начал учить английский по таким видео. :)

[Wahinies]

For how highly touted EndeavourOS is, real world usage like booting and USB transfer looking much better on my preferred OS Manjaro! Thank you for the comparison

[anant]

Thanks for this video. As a programmer this data is useful in making my own judgements on these distros.
My conclusions, feel free to challenge them if you so wish, are :
1. Manjaro/Arch is roughly equivalent. There is good balance between I/O optimisation and computational optimisation, perhaps favouring I/O.
2. Garuda is optimising explicitly for speed in computation and data-reliability in I/O, with their zen kernel and BTRFS.

This makes it enticing to use Garuda for gaming, rendering or other work where there is a sustained computational bottleneck, while the others are better suited to general purpose use where the vast majority of the time there is an I/O bottleneck.

The problem I have is I, as a dev, understand I/O latency and bottlenecks are a much, much larger problem for so much of what a computer does, that I would personally find the obsession with optimising for computation at the expense of already unimpressive I/O speeds of today as amateurish and misguided. Except for very few select workloads involving sustained high intensity GPU/CPU workloads, this is shortsighted. But of course, people are entitled to their preferences and this might make sense to gamers or rendering rigs which are blinged out with NVMe/PCIe SSDs and a large part of the disk I/O bottleneck is not worth thinking of, at least relative to the SATA SSD/HDD masses. Even their, their RAM I/O was also much worse, and so is their RAM usage, which is shocking.

[GuyJames]

I must say that my experience on a 2014 thinkpad with an SSD and 8 gigs of RAM was that Garuda was noticeably more stable and snappier than Manjaro. Possibly Manjaro might work better on a lower-specced machine though.

[thecloudrazor]

very, very good content! please keep up these distro comparisons i love them

[TheOranjer]

Thanks you and greetings from Thailand, I'm new to endeavour OS 😄

[Lukes-Tech]

Awesome video! I love your videos, they are so well done!

[toast]

Very intersting results I still prefer vanilla Arch because I don't need that many packages and I surprisingly had less issues than Manjaro and Garuda

[M_Weber]

Hell yeah!! This was a good one! Thanks for all the hard work mate!

[MirceaKitsune]

Very nice and useful comparison, thank you for making this video! Just switched from openSUSE to Manjaro this week... definitely a choice I feel happy with.