[sally1620]

It is not surprising that the manufacturer of the HW produces a better operating system for that HW than the third parties.

In the benchmarks, Clear Linux also beats Ubuntu for the same reason, Intel engineers understand Intel CPUs better than anybody else.

M1 makes this kind of comparison close to impossible. There is Asahi Linux now, but it is far from a production level Linux and I don't think it will ever perform as good as macOS. For the same reason above.

[brnt]

Speaking of Clear Linux, does anyone here use it and would like to comment? Sounds like it would make for an interesting daily driver for my workstation, but there seems to be hardly any community that does. Never ran into anyone who did more than benchmark with it.