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cubefoxtoday at 1:13 PM1 replyview on HN

I'm surprised the choice of operating system can have such a large impact on performance. I would have expected the performance was more dependent on the application, not the OS.


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eastboundtoday at 1:25 PM

In parallel to your tested application, CPU and memory are also clogged by running the ads for the Start menu, telemetry, disk encryption… and, concerning Windows, its architecture is famously too encapsulate recursively every previous version of Windows so that legacy programs can run seamlessly, which explains the disk size and may have impact on the daemons.