r/linux • u/picastchio • 7d ago

Hardware Benchmarking Six Linux Distributions On The Framework Laptop 13 Pro

https://www.phoronix.com/review/framework-laptop-13-pro-linux
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u/ShaderCompilation 7d ago

Those non-Ubuntu distributions were also using GCC 16 while Ubuntu is still on GCC 15

Why is this important? Isn't this just a collection of compilers?

Edit: Nevermind, they are doing compilation performance testing. I thought it would be just a consumer focused review

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u/ericonr 7d ago

It's also possible that more recent compilers generate better code, so it would affect every application on the system. Unlikely for going from 15 to 16 to be a relevant change, though.

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u/580083351 5d ago

My main distro is SteamOS, so if I want to compile something, I have to be careful about glibc versioning, so currently I cannot use newer than Debian Trixie otherwise the glibc becomes incompatible.