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Does anyone know where to find some good measurements of performance differences between common distros (with like hardware and config).

I'm interested to see if some perform better than others due to optimization etc

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[–] lisploli@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

DJ Ware adds detailed performance statistics to his reviews.

I don't think it's very useful. Easily changeable default choices should make the most notable differences. The filesystem for example. Another big factor should be the configuration and the version of the kernel and it probably changes more between updates than between distributions.