Apple macOS Monterey 12 Performance Is Surprisingly Competitive with Linux

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31 points·Brajeshwar··8 comments

It is not surprising that the manufacturer of the HW produces a better operating system for that HW than the third parties.

In the benchmarks, Clear Linux also beats Ubuntu for the same reason, Intel engineers understand Intel CPUs better than anybody else.

M1 makes this kind of comparison close to impossible. There is Asahi Linux now, but it is far from a production level Linux and I don't think it will ever perform as good as macOS. For the same reason above.

Speaking of Clear Linux, does anyone here use it and would like to comment? Sounds like it would make for an interesting daily driver for my workstation, but there seems to be hardly any community that does. Never ran into anyone who did more than benchmark with it.

Kind of lost some credibility from the get go with

> “the newer Apple Silicon (M1) hardware isn't yet in good enough shape for performance tests on Linux”.

I don’t think it’s the hardware itself that’s holding such tests back.

The article is otherwise good, but I did notice that strange wording.

The quoted sentence makes sense if prefixed with “support for” which I will give the author the benefit of the doubt is what they intended.

Had they not repeated it in the 2nd paragraph, I'd have given the benefit of the doubt.

Phoronix has always had very strange / stilted wording by the lone author. It just seems to be his style.

Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29611078

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