# Ubuntu vs Windows 10: Performance Tests on a Walmart Laptop **URL:** \ **Category:** News & Articles\ **Tags:** business, operating-system, windows\ **Created:** [February 3, 2020, 2:56am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/ubuntu-vs-windows-10-performance-tests-on-a-walmart-laptop/68214 "2020-02-03T02:56:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TheJoker](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/thejoker/32/22660_2.png) [@TheJoker](https://onehack.st/u/TheJoker)\ **Post date:** [February 3, 2020, 2:56am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/ubuntu-vs-windows-10-performance-tests-on-a-walmart-laptop/68214/1 "2020-02-03T02:56:49Z")
Phoronix’s Michael Larabel is doing some [performance testing on Walmart’s $199 Motile-branded M141 laptop](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ryzen3-windows-linux&num=1) (which has an AMD Ryzen 3 3200U processor, Vega 3 graphics, 4GB of RAM, and a 14-inch 1080p display). But first he compared the performance of its pre-installed Windows 10 OS against the forthcoming Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Linux distribution. ![Ubuntu vs Windows 10 AMD Motile M141](https://onehack.st/uploads/default/original/3X/8/1/812ba1a5dd65b609888f90f063137e8b7cebf4ba.png) ## Some highlights: - - Java text rendering performance did [come out much faster on Ubuntu 20.04](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ryzen3-windows-linux&num=3) with this Ryzen 3 3200U laptop… - - The GraphicsMagick imaging program [tended to run much better on Linux](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ryzen3-windows-linux&num=6), which we’ve seen on other systems in the past as well. - - Intel’s Embree path-tracer was running faster on Ubuntu… - - Various video benchmarks were generally favoring Ubuntu for better performance though I wouldn’t recommend much in the way of video encoding from such a low-end device… - - The GIMP image editing software [was running much faster on Ubuntu 20.04](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ryzen3-windows-linux&num=7) in its development state than GIMP 2.10 on Windows 10… - - Python 3 performance [is still much faster on Linux than Windows](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ryzen3-windows-linux&num=8). - - If planning to do any web/LAMP development from the budget laptop and testing PHP scripts locally, Ubuntu’s PHP7 performance continues running much stronger than Windows 10. - Git also continues running much faster on Linux. Their conclusion? “Out of 63 tests ran on both operating systems, Ubuntu 20.04 was the fastest with coming in front 60% of the time.” (This sounds like 38 wins for Ubuntu versus 25 wins for Windows 10.) > “If taking the geometric mean of all 63 tests, the Motile $199 laptop with Ryzen 3 3200U was 15% faster on Ubuntu Linux over Windows 10.”