Which platform (Windows or Linux) will give darktable work better on?
Linux!!!
I am using a 9 year old Dell XPS i7 gen 2 (sandy bridge) (8 cores total)
- 8GB RAM and PopOS 20.04 that I upgraded to few weeks ago. And I prefer
to use this machine compared to Dell Precision - Windows 10 Professional
with 16 GB Ram - 8 cores i5 or i7 (not sure) - Gen 8 - 1.5 year old
again 8 cores.
I didn't buy the Windows - I have it from work and work on it daily (I
don't use it for personal use except to try one program or another). The
windows has even GPU Nvidia Quadro P1000 that Darktable utilizes but I
see no significant improvement in performance.
With all that windows has to offer on the hardware (I mean the Dell
machine) I feel that the performance and experience did not match Linux.
Because of my older configuration - I used Ubuntu 16.04 with Darktable
2.6.3 and this configuration (on the 9 year old machine) would happily
compete with Windows 10 Professional (the new 1.5 year old computer)
with Darktable 3.0.2
Now since my 9 year old machine is upgraded to Pop OS 20.04 - Darktable
3.0.2 still works great but in some modules (like denoise, retouch) I
can feel the aging hardware. Even with this - the service that I
received from the hardware (Dell XPS x2), Linux and Darktable are more
than impressive.
I don't know what the experience is to run Darktable on a brand new
machine under Linux. Looking at youtube videos sometimes - majority of
the presenters that run Linux appear to have better experience than my
Windows 10 professional. By the way - they are not only running
Darktable - at the same time they record the video for youtube.
Hope you will find the best platform that serves your needs. I made my
choice and it is Linux.
Regards,
B
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