![]() These days, I find it’s more or less a non-issue on any OS if you know what you’re doing, but it’s undeniable that Windows is targeted far more with malicious software. There’s also the small issue of viruses and malware. However, Linux easily bests both in terms of stability and perceived general performance. The irony is that even though I’m running macOS on non-native hardware, I’ve still had far fewer stability issues with it over the past 5 or 6 years than with Windows. This unfortunately seems to be a side-effect from how Windows prioritises tasks. Although Windows 10 has come a lot further in this regard over previous iterations of Windows, there are still times where one application can bring down the entire system. ![]() Least resource intensive and the most responsive sometimes glitchy.įor what it may lack in snappiness, macOS redeems itself in its stability. More responsive than macOS in most respects on identical hardware. Less responsive than the other two still nice to use overall. This is partly to do with graphics drivers and partly to do with differences in desktop environment optimisation, but it lets down what would otherwise be ideal performance. The only drawback is that sometimes things can be a bit glitchy. However, at this point, I’ve used the latest versions of GNOME, KDE Plasma, Unity, Cinnamon, and XFCE, and all of them felt very fast and responsive on my system. This is true, and indeed your experience will vary depending on which one you use. “Linux has a lot of different desktop environments”. I instantly found Linux to feel snappier than the other two. File transfers for some reason are always much more cumbersome on a Mac than in Windows or Linux. Aside from the perception of interface speed, there are other considerations. It doesn’t help that Macs tend to be a bit underpowered in the graphics department (my MacBook Pro with integrated graphics is less smooth than my desktop ‘hackintosh’). With the same hardware, the sluggishness is definitely less noticeable though. The same can be said when typing text in a word processor, for example. Macs seem to try to update the window contents more in ‘real-time’, which offers some benefits, but ultimately makes it feel more sluggish. ![]() There is no better way to demonstrate this than to take your average browser window with a fairly image/data heavy website loaded, and then try to move and resize the window. However, I think it’s to do with how each OS actually draws graphical objects. I have heard that application level hardware acceleration is a lot better in macOS with AMD graphics cards, rather than the nVidia + web driver solution I’m using. This might be in part to do with hardware acceleration. There’s something about how macOS renders its windows and animations that makes it feel a little sluggish compared to Windows on the same hardware. This one is both surprising and unsurprising to me, having used both Windows and macOS for quite some time. Let’s get cracking… 1 General responsiveness and performance I will rate each of the three OSes on each category from 1 to 5 (5 being the best). I’m going to focus on a number of categories. For Linux, I’m using Ubuntu Studio 18.10 (though I’ve previously had other Ubuntu flavours installed so I can speak a little for Ubuntu/Debian based Linux systems in general). For macOS, I am using High Sierra, installed using Clover. I’m running all of these on an Intel Ivy Bridge (3rd gen) machine with 16GB of DDR3 RAM and an nVidia GTX 980Ti graphics card. Despite this, the goal is hopefully to provide some useful information for people looking to weigh up the pros and cons of each OS.Īll three OSes are installed on SSDs using a SATA III connection. Therefore, you may end up scoring some of these differently if you have different requirements, and you may think of criteria that are important to you but are not on my list. The ratings I devote to each section are based on criteria I choose myself, as well as my own experiences on my own hardware. Second, whilst I’m aiming to be as objective as possible, this is far from scientific. Rather, it is designed to show how well each of them seem to perform across a set of common use cases (which are based on the things I primarily use my system for). First, this is not a comparison looking at technical details. This gives me the ability to make somewhat of an objective comparison about how each system functions for the tasks I care about, and so I thought I’d use this opportunity to do just that. I’ve found myself in somewhat of an atypical situation recently: I have three different operating systems (OSes) installed on my desktop computer.
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