<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tombert</author><text>I recently sold my Macbook, bought a Thinkpad, and am running NixOS full time, and I have to say that desktop Linux has gotten pretty excellent since the last time I ran it full-time.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m not sure if it&amp;#x27;s thanks to Wayland, or just improvements to the kernel, or improvements to the desktop environment, or some combination of the three, but at this point I actually think that for the first time I might actually prefer Gnome over macOS.&lt;p&gt;I haven&amp;#x27;t bothered with Windows since Windows 8, but it does make me happy that Linux holds its own performance-wise, even still.  It doesn&amp;#x27;t look like Linux is categorically better than Windows, but it looks like for the most part they&amp;#x27;re comparable.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 24.10 Performance For Intel Core Ultra 7 Lunar Lake</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/review/lunar-lake-windows-linux/5</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>eknkc</author><text>So, this got me curious. Assuming a cpu heavy benchmark with no syscalls (calculate primes or something like that) I’d not really expect a major difference between OSs. I guess you have the scheduler possibly fucking things up and the memory management. Maybe?&lt;p&gt;What else could contribute to a raw cpu benchmark difference?</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 24.10 Performance For Intel Core Ultra 7 Lunar Lake</title><url>https://www.phoronix.com/review/lunar-lake-windows-linux/5</url></story>