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 used it a few times and it seemed reasonably snappy.