On 1/25/19 5:21 PM, Jimmy Berry wrote:
This is the point people seem to miss with "out-of-box" and why people care. There are plenty of users that are not interested in tuning every part of the system to get the best performance. They just want to install it and use it. As such out-of-box is very relevant.
Exactly this!
In fact if you are comparing distros that's a major part the default configuration.
Yes. In fact, to be more specific, if someone is interested in comparing different Linux distros, then that means that they are not committed to one distro. If they were, they wouldn't be interested in such test results. And yet Phoronix has been running for 14 years, so clearly they *are*. This being the case, if they are a distro-hopper or merely a first-timer, then they won't *know* how to optimize any one distro. That kind of knowledge is something you only know if you're an expert in one distro, and few people are expert in more than one family. Thus, they don't know about what difference config changes would make, they don't know how to do them, and by definition, *they don't care.* They just want to know how it works "out of the box". And if any one distro fails as compared to its rivals in that situation, then that's a problem with that distro, and one which needs to be fixed if it is going to get people's attention. Yes the Linux market is mature. Yes some products are old and well-established. But remember, only about half of the human race is online yet. The other half are coming soon, as fast as they can. There is still a *lot* to play for.
Clearly if I try hard enough I can make distros very similar to each-other as they are running the same upstream software and as such I would get more similar results. At that point you are benchmarking the upstream software and not the distro.
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