Comment # 81 on bug 1112824 from Dead Mozay

(In reply to Borislav Petkov from comment #79)
> (In reply to Dead Mozay from comment #75)
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> Yes, you're comparing apples with oranges:
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> 1. Fedora is 4.18.16-300.fc29.x86_64 which has some patches - who knows
> what - all the distros do ship their own tweaks ontop.
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> 2. 4.20.0-rc5-1.g2ccaf30-vanilla which is the upstream kernel (perhaps?)
> and does not have those patches.
> 
> All this says is that Fedora's kernel is somewhat better, provided the
> benchmarks are sensible. I have no clue what yours do.
> 
> If you want to compare security mitigations, you need to take the same
> kernel and do two runs, once with the mitigation enabled and once with
> the mitigation disabled.

with the same kernel, the results are the same, just where it is installed
there is no possibility to use other kernels because of the proprietary drivers
nvidia.
in fedora vanilla kernel, without patches, at least so maintainers maintain
I tried to install fedora on this laptop, it works fine even with the kernel
4.19.4 which was at that time