Windows 8.1 vs. Ubuntu 14.10 With Intel HD Graphics

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Windows 8.1 vs. Ubuntu 14.10 With Intel HD Graphics

For those curious how the latest open-source Intel Linux graphics driver is performing against Intel's newest closed-source Windows OpenGL driver, we've put Ubuntu 14.10 (including a second run with the latest Linux kernel / Mesa) against Microsoft Windows 8.1 with the newest Intel GPU driver released earlier this month.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=21107

[dungeon]

Probably known Xonotic audio weirdness on Linux ... Micheal, can you recheck Xonotic with sound driver disabled, booting kernel with following should be enough i guess:

snd_hda_intel.enable=0

[stan]

Way to go Intel!

[mark45]

The last test which shows 20x times improvement, damn, how great, but also how irrelevant and nobody knows what exactly made it work much faster.

[dungeon]

The last test which shows 20x times improvement, damn, how great, but also how irrelevant and nobody knows what exactly made it work much faster.

At first that could be bug in one of both cases , people should better recheck those to be sure

[eydee]

Most windows users use windows 7, so that's what should be used in the benchmarks as well.

[dungeon]

Most windows users use windows 7, so that's what should be used in the benchmarks as well.

How you can buy that now? Even preinstalled variant will end up tommorow And in less then 3 months there will be no more free updates for Big Seven

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle

Hm oh my... 6 months after end up everything for XP, it is still used by 23.87% people , i think those people need to buy a brain

[brosis]

Wayland will improve the situation a lot. Very often, its Xorg protocol overhead limiting performance. windows has wayland-like bitmap/surface-based dwm since vista.

[brosis]

How you can buy that now? Even preinstalled variant will end up tommorow And in less then 3 months there will be no more free updates for Big Seven

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/lifecycle

Hm oh my... 6 months after end up everything for XP, it is still used by 23.87% people , i think those people need to buy a brain

No. They run some outdated software and dont care for the fuzz, till it runs. This is like saying debian stable need to buy brain. Well,.. somehow you are right.

[dungeon]

No. They run some outdated software and dont care for the fuzz, till it runs. This is like saying debian stable need to buy brain. Well,.. somehow you are right.

I understand extended peroid for some minority of people that is OK, but those numbers are ROFLMAO... That is not like Debian Stable, that is not like even Debian old-Stable, but something out of any support for 6 months and 1/4 people on this crazy planet still use it .