Linux is faster than macOS

• September 08, 2025 at 16:17 IST
• linux
• macos

Came across this post from DHH explaining Linux is way faster than macOS in real life, and to be exact over 7x faster for the below task:

curl -L https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/linux-6.16.tar.xz -o linux.tar.xz
time tar -xf linux.tar.xz

Running the above command on Framework desktop, with Omarchy installed, takes around 1.6 seconds whereas it takes 12.2 seconds on MBP M4 Pro. And here is what GPT-5 explains about why there's so much speed difference.

Actually, another person ran the same tests and it was similar, Linux was way faster.

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