Linux Distribution Experiment
Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2019 5:13 am
Disclaimer : This is not a serious experiment , just 4fun and a bit of gambling so me and my work-friend can have the to-be-disposed laptop instead of 3rd party pawning service in the closing of October if we can produce good result .
With my other linux-noob-friend i made from the office who suffers the same problem with me , we actually ask our boss to use 10yo-tobedisposed-officelaptops that is sitting on the server room storage eating dust , and install different linux distribution we think the best (Linux Mint , MX Linux , Manjaro , Solus) to see which distribution will 'broke' first .
Each have the exact same specification and exact same model also exact same hardware setup (HP , dual core i3 , 4 thread , 2x2 GB ram , 512MB Nvidia GeForce , 60GB HDD (we replace it with 5yo 128GB SSD from the storage) ) .
I handle MX and Manjaro XFCE , my friend handles Mint Cinnamon and Solus Budgie . The task we handle are your office chores like data entry , document creation , document edit , document upload/download , e-mail thingies , creating presentation , doing presentation , and processing mined-data . We considers any work inhibition (like error with printing , can't connect to local network , can't access shared hardware , and generic noobish problem) as "broken" .
We only do basic modify , like codecs , nvidia driver , network register , and conky .
So this morning , about 4 day from the 2nd month mark , the experiment finally take first victim : my Manjaro installation finally break . It can't connect to shared printers after daily update . But there's already a solution on the Arch-wiki so it actually doesn't matter .
About the side-result :
boot up time (according to stopwatch , best of the 3) :
1. Manjaro & Solus (16.1s)
2. MX (16.6s)
3, Mint (17s)
operating workload temperature (wi-fi , libreoffice write , calc , thunderbird , mozilla , after 3 hours working nonstop according to conky)
1. Manjaro (65-66 C)
2. MX & Mint (65-67 C)
3. Solus (64-68 C)
might be lower if the dust cleaned and given thermal-paste thingies
operating workload CPU (according to htop after 3 hours working nonstop)
1. MX & Mint (45%~49%)
2. Solus (47%-50%)
3. Manjaro (47%-51%)
What my boss likes : It can reduce 5-year windows leasing cost , less problem with IT department , and can free some workforce
What Information System Department likes : reducing corrupt data? (they said something i don't actually understand but that's the gist) , and more time to do administration work shared with IT departement
What IT Departement likes : less time working on fixing laptop and more time to and more time to do administration work shared with Information System Department
My Boss favourite : Solus it seems he liked Budgie DE
Information System Departement favourite : MX & Mint (50:50)
IT Department favourite : MX & Solus
My Department Favourite : Mint
My Personal Favourite : MX
My Friend's Personal Favourite : Mint
But maybe we won't have Linux as official desktop at anytime soon since the parent company still have another 10 years of contract with microsoft . We the subsidiary of the child company won't have a much say about this sadly .
With my other linux-noob-friend i made from the office who suffers the same problem with me , we actually ask our boss to use 10yo-tobedisposed-officelaptops that is sitting on the server room storage eating dust , and install different linux distribution we think the best (Linux Mint , MX Linux , Manjaro , Solus) to see which distribution will 'broke' first .
Each have the exact same specification and exact same model also exact same hardware setup (HP , dual core i3 , 4 thread , 2x2 GB ram , 512MB Nvidia GeForce , 60GB HDD (we replace it with 5yo 128GB SSD from the storage) ) .
I handle MX and Manjaro XFCE , my friend handles Mint Cinnamon and Solus Budgie . The task we handle are your office chores like data entry , document creation , document edit , document upload/download , e-mail thingies , creating presentation , doing presentation , and processing mined-data . We considers any work inhibition (like error with printing , can't connect to local network , can't access shared hardware , and generic noobish problem) as "broken" .
We only do basic modify , like codecs , nvidia driver , network register , and conky .
So this morning , about 4 day from the 2nd month mark , the experiment finally take first victim : my Manjaro installation finally break . It can't connect to shared printers after daily update . But there's already a solution on the Arch-wiki so it actually doesn't matter .
About the side-result :
boot up time (according to stopwatch , best of the 3) :
1. Manjaro & Solus (16.1s)
2. MX (16.6s)
3, Mint (17s)
operating workload temperature (wi-fi , libreoffice write , calc , thunderbird , mozilla , after 3 hours working nonstop according to conky)
1. Manjaro (65-66 C)
2. MX & Mint (65-67 C)
3. Solus (64-68 C)
might be lower if the dust cleaned and given thermal-paste thingies
operating workload CPU (according to htop after 3 hours working nonstop)
1. MX & Mint (45%~49%)
2. Solus (47%-50%)
3. Manjaro (47%-51%)
What my boss likes : It can reduce 5-year windows leasing cost , less problem with IT department , and can free some workforce
What Information System Department likes : reducing corrupt data? (they said something i don't actually understand but that's the gist) , and more time to do administration work shared with IT departement
What IT Departement likes : less time working on fixing laptop and more time to and more time to do administration work shared with Information System Department
My Boss favourite : Solus it seems he liked Budgie DE
Information System Departement favourite : MX & Mint (50:50)
IT Department favourite : MX & Solus
My Department Favourite : Mint
My Personal Favourite : MX
My Friend's Personal Favourite : Mint
But maybe we won't have Linux as official desktop at anytime soon since the parent company still have another 10 years of contract with microsoft . We the subsidiary of the child company won't have a much say about this sadly .