Recent Slackware Current performance experience.
by deNiro from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5DYAH)
I know that a post like this adds nothing. but it is caused by my enthusiasm on the recent current.
long story short - last week I finally moved my main PC (4770k/16GB/GTX970/SSDS) to Slackware current because I could not wait anymore on the final release. On the laptop I've always ran Salix 14.2. So I was not uptodate with current at all. And the following catched me by surprise
I've noticed that the performance of Slackware Current is just fantastic. I was weary of more gtk3, but it's on the par with gtk2. The desktop feels just right. You click, and applications instantly open. Even recent Firefox-Esr runs faster then I have seen before. You probably know what I mean when you know your computer/desktop well, and that it feels just right.
I admit I "cheated" a bit for a while ( in a period of 2 months I tried mint/ubuntu/debian bullseye to run my games), but that means I can compare. Debian came close to Slackware current. The others where seriously lagging behind.
It's not only the desktop and the applications, it's also the games on steam. And that with the exact same version of the nvidia driver, So I have no idea what it is that makes the difference, but sw-current outperformed them all. As in higher fps and no funny stuff when using games full-windowed mode, while using another screen for other stuff. I kinda regret not having used proper benchmark-tools on all of them to compare.
All is well :P
long story short - last week I finally moved my main PC (4770k/16GB/GTX970/SSDS) to Slackware current because I could not wait anymore on the final release. On the laptop I've always ran Salix 14.2. So I was not uptodate with current at all. And the following catched me by surprise
I've noticed that the performance of Slackware Current is just fantastic. I was weary of more gtk3, but it's on the par with gtk2. The desktop feels just right. You click, and applications instantly open. Even recent Firefox-Esr runs faster then I have seen before. You probably know what I mean when you know your computer/desktop well, and that it feels just right.
I admit I "cheated" a bit for a while ( in a period of 2 months I tried mint/ubuntu/debian bullseye to run my games), but that means I can compare. Debian came close to Slackware current. The others where seriously lagging behind.
It's not only the desktop and the applications, it's also the games on steam. And that with the exact same version of the nvidia driver, So I have no idea what it is that makes the difference, but sw-current outperformed them all. As in higher fps and no funny stuff when using games full-windowed mode, while using another screen for other stuff. I kinda regret not having used proper benchmark-tools on all of them to compare.
All is well :P