Will Pixinsight perform better with a Windows 10 or Ubuntu install?

[photonhunter1]

I've built a desktop to run Pixinsight exclusively, and will use it for astrophotography post processing only. The build includes an ASRock AB350 Pro4 mobo, Ultra M,2 256gb ssd, Ryzen AMD1700x, GE Force GTX 1050 graphics card, and 32gb 3200 ram.

My question, will there be a noticeable performance difference between a Win10 or Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS install?

Thanks in advance.

Mike

[John_Gill]

Hi,

I ran PixInsight on a SuSE 11 (Linux) and a Windoze 10 PC but did not find much difference in performance. 

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John

[dld]

You may take a look at the benchmark results users have submitted so far

http://pixinsight.com/benchmark/

However, details on swap files configuration aren't always available.

[Juan Conejero]

Hi Mike,

My question, will there be a noticeable performance difference between a Win10 or Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS install?

Yes, absolutely. The Linux and FreeBSD versions are the reference implementations of PixInsight. You'll get much better performance on Linux in every aspect, not just in terms of execution speed, but in terms of stability and overall usability.

Since version 1.8.7 of PixInsight (planned for release in a few weeks for FreeBSD, Linux, macOS and Windows 10), our primary development platforms are Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and FreeBSD 12, both running KDE Plasma 5.12. My recommendation is Kubuntu 18.04 LTS or, if you prefer to live slightly dangerously, Kubuntu 19.04.

[photonhunter1]

Thanks everyone - very helpful. Downloading Kubuntu now.

Mike