Windows 11 vs Ubuntu vs Fedora 39 vs Arch Linux - Speed Test!

An update to our speed testing series! Windows vs. various Linux distros include Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch! We go over some general side-by-side testing.

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00:00 - Windows v Linux!
01:22 - Twingate (Sponsor)
02:27 - Boot Speed Tests
03:37 - Space and File Transfer
05:08 - Video Render
05:36 - App Launching
07:02 - Battery Life Test
07:55 - Geekbench 6
08:58 - Graphics Benchmark
09:50 - Phoronix Test Suite
14:27 - Final Thoughts

[ernon]

Please pay more attention to GB and GiB, plus I like to see the real number, assuming your storage is 512GB I made the true calculation in GB:
Fedora - 7.7 GB
Arch - 45 GB
Ubuntu - 49.2 GB
Windows - 72 GB

[foolmeonce-tcei]

Edge opens faster on Windows 11 because it was running in the background already.

[azenyr]

Note that Edge on Windows 11 is always preloaded in the background at all times. You can disable this, but its enabled by default which means its still on your ram even if you don't use it

[notuxnobux]

The reason things like kdenlive loaded faster on arch linux is because it ran kde plasma. The qt and other libraries are already loaded as they are used by other processes

[goldenmatrix]

Just one thing, 435 Gib are equal to 467 Gb so windows is last 😢

[frankhuurman]

always love comparison videos like this, thanks :)
tiny suggestion for next time: when you call out the time of one of the OS-es, stick that time in the screen of that OS. This way we can also visually compare them which is easier than running back the video to hear your voice. (and stop + remove the timer once the last OS has done its thing)

[ricardog.s]

If I'm completely honest as a Linux user of two years, the differences aren't that high right now between distros and Windows, but when I started using it there was a clear advantage for Windows in most things while Linux was behind or close behind, but right now this isn't the case and that speaks really good for Linux devs and distro maintainers

[dzphdlm]

Surprising battery result - great to see

[AQDuck]

I know that Endeavour is about as close to Arch you can get without being vanilla Arch, but it's a bit misleading to call it "Arch" in a benchmarking video, especially when you check things like boot speed, storage, etc.
Also I think going with Plasma for Endeavour nerfed it a bit extra, I think either going with Endeavour default (XFCE) or GNOME would be more fair.

Not saying you shouldn't have used Endeavour, just call it "Endeavour".

[technofi]

Please do this test again after kernel 6.9 is released later this year!
Would be cool to see an intel vs AMD laptop comparison as well as desktop etc

[HerrDoktorWeberMD]

windows losing in the read/write and other CPU tests can probably be chalked up to a couple things... mainly, linux dev hasn't focused on graphics cards quite as long as windows has, but also, windows is probably tying up a good chunk of the CPU and RAM bandwidth to compile and transmit every moment of your existence to Microsoft so they can sell it to advertisers

[bvd_vlvd]

Ubuntu did surprisingly well. Fedora and Arch are both running a lot newer kernel versions so I thought Fedora would beat Ubuntu in virtually every task since you didn't go for 23.10, but Ubuntu ended up getting a lot of Ws against Fedora!

[medisshehi]

Honestly, have been playing on linux for 2 years now and the situation is really improving, some games are implementing the linux compatible EAC (example For Honor) so all it's missing is some open source nvidia drivers

[xbeast]

Thank You So Much I Appreciate Your Efforts So Much ❤

[kuretaxyz]

Great comparison, thanks for the video. However, if you are going to call EndeavorOS Arch Linux, you might as well call Ubuntu Debian ☺

[oscarcharliezulu]

Is there a way to test for the most reliable or ‘available’ in terms of reboots needed, bsod’s or any type of outage, updates, etc?

[premnathd]

I have been using Fedora for a month on my laptop. I am suprised at the battery performance of my laptop. When I close the lid the battery use to drain in a few hours but on Fedora, it doesn't drain and wakes up quickly on opening the lid again. Even when opening after 2 days, the battery has not dropped much. Similar to what I have seen on my M1 Macbook Air. Is this the same with other linux distros as well or only with Fedora ?

[limeisgaming]

What File systems and partitioning schemes did you use on the Linux installations ?

[alexsalois]

I really appreciate that you used proper benchmarking software like phoronix test suite! I would appreciate more charts with numbers that have more significant digits. IE 1.244K vs 1.2K. The charts you generated did look nicer! Keep it up!

[adonnen]

Would be interesting (and useful) to see the benchmarks in wsl.