Then I evaluated the hardware recognition (I don’t think anyone needs an introduction to what this means) & stability.But on two occasions I had to run it twice). For further enhancing the accuracy, of each test, I took five samples (except for the system responsiveness test.Although I did add the system monitor (I used it to measure the memory usage) to the status-bar or to a launcher (if one is present). I did that because if I were to open it each time using the start-menu or otherwise, it would’ve increased the memory usage, thus negatively affecting the accuracy of the memory usage reading. I tried not to ‘touch’ (manual tweaks etc) anything on the OS.After installing, I let the newly installed OS to boot 5-6 times for letting things to settle down (because there are some applications and especially utilities such as ‘ureadahead’ - a tool that significantly speeds up boot-up times of Ubuntu, that require a couple of reboots to work properly).
Before installing each operating system, I securely wiped out the partition so that I end up with ‘clean’ sectors.I have a single partition created for the sole purpose of testing new GNU/Linux distributions. And all three flavors were installed into it, one after the other.I installed each operating system on the same hardware (obviously).I’ve also added data concerning hardware recognition & ACPI, and few other performance related data which you’ll get to read.īefore posting my judgement, I did my best to gather performance related data as accurately as possible, including the level of the stability of the OS, that although not to the extreme I did with performance. I followed the following ‘protocols’ for achieving those objectives: So consequently, you’ll find performance comparison between Boot-up Times, Memory Usage, System Responsiveness and Shutdown Delay, mainly. Ubuntu’s Unity desktop features the version 7.4.0, Kubuntu features the KDE Plasma 5.5.5 (and KDE Applications 15.12), and Ubuntu GNOME features GNOME 3.18 release. But as a general introduction, all three flavors use the Kernel 4.4 & Xorg 1.18.3. But just like the previous one of its kind, this too will be based on the performance aspect and the stability of the each operating system, and I won’t talk about the new features of the desktop or the applications.
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