Which distros are energy efficient? I have a capable desktop, and I mean to push it, but I don’t want to be using energy if it’s not necessary. I’m not looking to rescue an old laptop, for example.
I hear CachyOS is fast. Does that translate to energy efficient?
(Does the OS even matter that much for efficiency?)
I didn’t really understand, but I did heard that standard musl is lightweight but the performance is much worse than glibc. But chimera Linux changed the allocator to mimalloc that is bit less light then the standard allocator for musl but still much lighter than glibc. Also it’s performance is very close to glibc and can even beat it sometimes
Is it? I never heard this statement before (note not saying its wrong or right, just never read about that). I wonder if that statement is true and if it even matters in most cases. Similar to how performance of Python doesn’t matter for all kind of programs. The main benefit of musl is, it can be embedded into the application to make it standalone without depending on a dynamic library. Its entirely possible the code is not as optimized as glibc, but maybe it depends on the programming language its used and compiled with? Also maybe the stuff you read and heard was from early versions of musl and later they improved it to match glibc. Just speculation, but we don’t have anything else at hand right now.
Maybe you’re right, but to clarify bit what I heard is that musl is slower in heavy tasks, but still, maybe you’re right.
2 things I’m almost sure about are you that musl is lighter than glibc and that the allocator chimera Linux uses have better performance than the standard musl allocator.
I wonder why those optimizations are not part of generalized standard musl library. This (just thinking about it) indicates the optimizations by Chimera Linux are focused on specific performance improvements, while leaving something behind to reach that. What that is, I don’t know, maybe compatibility for edge cases or giving up performance for other tasks.
I’m just a bit cautious with these statements.
Probably there is something you loose if you’ll change to the allocator chimera Linux uses (btw microsoft developed it, I don’t know if it is good that they’re the once that made it but it works, I use chimera Linux with the microsoft) but I don’t now what. All I know that for general purpose pc it works great, the only troubles I got were with software made just for glibc. I’ll be happy to know what I loose when not using the standard allocator for musl, but I don’t know, is there a chance you can check it? thank you giving you point of view, I appreciate it.
Oh I have absolutely no Idea where to check at all. I guess Chimera has a community, its best to ask people who are there and use it and know it or know where to lookup.
They had a subreddit, but now it is closed or privet. Instead they have communities on different platforms I don’t have
They have an IRC channel, which is an oldschool chat. You don’t even need an account and can use the chat right in the browser by choosing a name. https://webchat.oftc.net/?channels#chimera-linux Some names does not work and I don’t know why, maybe because they are reserved by others or so? In example
guest69does not work, butthingsidontplaydoes. So try a different name if it doesn’t work to login right away. This is their official main community to ask questions. My recommendation is to open the chat, ask your question and then wait, don’t close the chat and let it wait. I assume most of them have experience with Chimera Linux and this is probably the best place on the entire internet to ask them questions directly.Thank you, but have no idea how to use IRC and I prefer not to. I know they have also a matrix chat, but I don’t want another WhatsApp like app on my phone