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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by gpstarman@lemmy.today to c/linuxquestions@lemmy.zip

What Kernel are you guys using?

I have seen some people claiming that custom kernels like zen cachyos offer better battery life and performance.

Is it true ?

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[-] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It is very hard to measure responsiveness (which is basically the only thing zen claims to be better at) without a lot of time investment and a high speed camera for frame analysis.

I guess a possible setup would be to run a multicore synthetic workload that takes most of the system resources and measuring the start time desktop applications.

But nobody has done it in a "scientific" way as far as I can see. Besides some hobbyist anecdotal observations:

https://reddit.rtrace.io/r/linux/comments/fh0hc2/its_time_for_desktop_distributions_to_adopt_a/

https://forum.garudalinux.org/t/kernel-benchmarking-results-zen-cacule-tkg-bore/18831/8

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