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Now if only they could bring their focus on performance to windows 11 as a whole.

It’s just shocking how much faster vanilla Linux is compared to vanilla windows 11.

Edit: by vanilla Linux I mean out of the box installation of your typical distribution e.g. Ubuntu without any explicit optimisation or tuning for performance

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What is "vanilla Linux"? Ubuntu+Gnome, Mint+Cinnamon, Fedora+KDE, Arch+COSMIC ..?

Each distro, platform and desktop manager and related apps are relatively different, though all work pretty well on modern hardware. I'm currently running PopOS COSMIC alpha with the 6.16-4 kernel via mainline. It's been pretty good, though there have been many rough edges regarding keyboard navigation/support in the new apps.

There happens to be a distro called Vanilla that is Debian-based, atomic, integrates distrobox etc.

https://vanillaos.org/

Gotcha, wasn't familiar with that Distro.

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