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by marcodiego 1600 days ago
If the computer is slow enough under load, you can use wall clock to count many seconds it takes to start a program that needs to load many libs and data (LibreOffice, Firefox, Blender, GIMP).

You can also watch FPS of supertuxkart when the system is under load: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5bAOJkX_uc https://github.com/hakavlad/le9-patch

But yes, we need a popular well behaved benchmark to measure desktop responsiveness.