Windows 10 vs Debian vs Arch Linux (EndeavourOS) - Speed Test!

Windows vs Linux! Full speed test on benchmarking of Windows 10, Debian, and a Arch based Linux distribution. This will include speed speed testing on two different systems. General side-by-side speed testing and in depth benchmarking; including Geekbench5, Unigine, and much more! What system has the best gaming, processing, and memory performance? Let's find out.

WINDOWS 10; Version: 2004, OS Build 19041
DEBIAN; Non-free 10.7.0, Kernel 4.19.0-13-amd
ARCH; endeavouros-2020.09.20-x86_64, 5.8.10-arch1-1
FIREFOX VERSION: 84.0.1

00:00 - Overview
01:24 - Boot/Speed Tests
03:01 - General Benchmarks
05:56 - Synthetic Benchmarking
09:02 - Linux Kernel Differences

FULL RESULTS:

DESKTOP: Asus x570-p, Ryzen 7 3700x, 32gb DDR4, 256gb SSD, GTX 1650
LAPTOP: Lenovo ThinkPad T450, i5-5300U, 8gb DDR3, 256gb SSD

My Workstation (PAID LINKS)

#TechHut #Windows #Linux

[luijo]

Booting strats*
Arch: "I'm gonna give you guys a little advantage but after that i'll not hold myself back "

[pmhqpue]

The main thing is not the object of measurement, but the measurement technique.
You can always choose the measurement method so that you get the results you want.
Living in Russia, I know this very well.

[diogenes_of_sinope]

09:25 not backdoor but backports (backdoor is the term that describes a security hole, exploit).

[chaslinux]

The GIMP startup slowness on Windows 10 appears to be when GIMP looks for FONTS on Windows - at least this is where I noticed it seemed to take much longer. Great video, interesting to see how much better Arch is at most tasks.

[digitalisetherium]

Doesn't GIMP on Windows require compatibility libraries? I think this is not a good app to use for comparison.

[Sacheen]

Just some constructive criticism: the graphs would be much easier to interpret visually if they had a matching scale

[FilSapia]

An important thing to note about the game benchmark is the fact almost all games use DirectX not OpenGL. I find that DirectX to Vulkan translation costs about 10%-15% of your overall FPS in DX11/12 games, so unless the game natively supports Vulkan or OpenGL it will perform worse in Linux.
World of Warcraft actually performs the same in DX11 mode as it does in DX12 mode which is a shame as DX12 doubles the frame-rate for me on my laptop in Windows. Otherwise this is consistent which almost every game I tried.

[flcampos]

Thanks for the video! I have one suggestion: keep all three charts with the same maximum and minimun axis values to better give a notion of proportion

[jessegodsey]

Appreciate the review. You did lightly mention a kernel update. I would focus a little more on the kernel versions on each or state them in the beginning because, as you know, the kernel and modules have a lot to do with the performance of the system and optimization of the hardware.

[mylinuxgr]

Debian has older versions of the same applications that Arch has. Could this play a role in the outcome of the tests?

[pieterhartzer]

I would like to see this test performed on a machined that's been in use for a year or so, running the typical everyday apps. Windows is fast on clean install but after a few months drag to a halt. I use a Debian based distro which doesn't appear to do the same and all my apps are still rather snappy.

[rallisf]

It's been over a year, so I think it's mandatory you re-run these with latest versions (Windows 11/Debian 11) and maybe also throw OpenSuse Tumbleweed into the mix to represent Slackware.

[astrahcat]

7:20 Usual reddit help, people immediately instead of being helpful going "wtf why would you do that!!!???" like a crazy person

[chinmayrajyaguru]

You need SSD bro. Linux distro will run faster compare to any Windows system. Additionally, the testing will give you better results.

[ImaadAnsari]

Please use consistent scales in the graphs when comparing

[lauragrandas]

Aaaand you did it again. Many thanks, just what I was looking for (again).

[Salvajuro]

I've been using Endeveaour OS for months with Kde and I'm fine with it, even if I miss some Windows software

[davidweeks]

Nice work. I've settled on Debian, though I think for specialized purposes, Arch/Gentoo/LFS with purpose specified compiler flags will always be impossible to beat.
My only use for M$ is to play games.
Thank you again, for the review.

[kokizzu]

what file system used on debian and on Arch?

[nikrbawker]

gimp and libre are so slow on windows has to load more libs or something that linux already has my guess. gimp feels emulated on windows these days. definitely one of my favorite apps to work in. i love arch with gnome so refreshing when you open something you can really tell it throws your full power at the task you give it while windows has to queue up the spying of that app and most likely its massive code length just to open anything before opening it. once youre inside of a aaa game on windows its pretty alright i guess and has full backing of nvidia, steam and any other corp making the title specific to the os, kind of unfortunate that linux doesnt have windows level of a game library but its still good enough that id like to make the full switch soon, right now i just have arch on a usb 2tb id like to put it on a m.2 ssd when i get one.