Typically when receiving any review hardware preloaded with Microsoft Windows I tend to run some Windows vs. Linux benchmarks just as a sanity test plus it still seems to generate a fair amount of interest even though the outcome is almost always the same: Linux having a hefty performance advantage over Windows especially in the more demanding creator-type workloads. As an unexpected twist and time consuming puzzle the past two months, when recently testing out the Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 8 it’s faster for numerous workloads now on Microsoft Windows 11 than Ubuntu Linux.
Umm… Ubuntu?
About a decade ago I went through an Ubuntu phase only because a lot of tutorials had their Linux examples in Ubuntu. Ubuntu was so dam laggy and frustrating that the Ubuntu phase didn’t last long.
I’ve been thinking of switching from Kubuntu to Fedora KDE
I don’t like rolling releases, I’d rather have point releases (like Ubuntu or Fedora), but Ubuntu is really far behind on a lot of packages
I’ve used it a few times and it seemed reasonably snappy.
I bet Linux wasn’t updated to recognize the new processor yet and thus wasn’t scheduling to the various types of P, E, and LPE cores correctly.
Core 100 series was out at the end of 2023. The LPE cores shouldn’t have been an issue.
Ubuntu is quite behind the update curve tho. Something like CatchyOS or Arch probably would have been much better in comparison.
Bleeding edge hardware slower on an older Linux distro. In other news water is wet.
That said it being that bad is legitimately impressive. It’s not like core 100 series where they changed from P + E to LP + P + E cores to shake things up. The 200 series shouldn’t be *that *different from it.
My guess is that the Linux install, upon not recognizing the processor, is designed to assume the processor is so old to not be recognized and is setup for “potato” mode.
