UPDATE FROM MABULA
I have had a very rough 2 months unfortunately health wise. I was struck 3x in a row with bacterial infections. The second infection occurred  after a routine hospital checkup and I became very sick. I had to rest and take a lot of antibiotics. Once I was recovering and restarting work 1 month ago, I again became sick. The infection was not yet gone, so even more antibiotics and rest was needed. Needless to say, it took a lot of my energy and I needed a lot of rest.
Finally, the infection is really gone and my energy is coming back step-by-step now and I have started work again. I am terribly sorry to have kept you waiting for support. I will address all outstanding questions and e-mails step-by step and will be on the forum daily from today.
APP 2.0.0-beta47 will come soon as well, a lot of work was already completed before I became very ill, so the release is also nearly ready for you. Beta47 will be much faster actually. Many workflows will be more than 2x faster, mosaics can even be 10x faster than before because registration really received a major boost... all compared to beta46. Â Before I release it, I will make sure that everything is working properly and then I will release it.
Hi,
I've just built a new PC - Ryzen 1700, 16gb ram, ssd etc. I've installed Windows 7, but am thinking seriously of putting a copy of Linux Mint Cinnamon on - perhaps in a dual boot config.
Does APP run any quicker in Linux, ie is there any performance advantage?
If I install APP on both the Windows and the Linux partitions, does that count as 2 of my 3 allowed APP installations? I have it on my laptop - Win 10, so only one install at the moment.
cheers
Gary
Hi Gary @garyrmck,
That sounds like a nice new PC 😉
I have done lots of testing on Linux virtual systems (including LinuxMint 17.0 & 17.1) in Oracle VirtualBox, so it used a certain amount of CPU threads and GBs memory of the mother pc, which is a Threadripper windows 10 machine 😉
I could not see clear performance differences between windows 10 and Linux on a virtual machine then. Maybe if you run it on a non-virtual Linux, you'll see some performance gain, but i am not quite sure. It would be interesting to know off course.
Linux, as an Operating System, is of course much less demanding on hardware resource then Windows 10, so performance on the Linux system could be better. But with enough memory (16Gb of Ram) and enough CPU threads, the differences could be hard to tell.
APP as an application is developed 100% platform independently, so it should run more or less the same on Linux as on Windows as on MacOS with the same hardware resource available. 99,9 & of the code in APP is the same for all platforms. In the future, I'll implement the use of calculations on the GPU. Then the differences might become more noticeble perhaps, because then OS specific code is needed to talk directly with the GPU.
So for now, I think running APP on Linux should be at least as nice as on Windows, perhaps a little bit nicer 😉
Regarding the installations, yes, if you install it on both the windows and linux partitions, both will count as an activation. This also applies for running APP in a virtual machine on a mothermachine.
In the future, you will be able to control the license activations from within APP, but for now, if you need to deactivate a machine, just contact me and I will do it 😉
Mabula
Hi Mabula,
thanks so much for the detailed reply. I'll stick to windows for a while but may soon shift to linux. Will be interesting to see if there is any speed benefit.
cheers
Gary
@mabula-admin Hello,
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are there any new insights in matters of performance differences between Linux and Windows? Receiving a new PC the next days with 16 cores and 64 gb Mem
Hi Stefan,
No, no real insights, on Linux APP should perform just as well as on Windows, and I still expect it to run a little bit better on Linux, since it is less resource hungry as windows 10 or 11 I think. But this would only hold for a machine with relatively little hardware resources, especially little RAM. So if your new machine has 64GB of RAM, I would expect that benchmarks on Linux or Windows (not through virtualization) will almost give the same results, or better said, i would think the difference would not be significant in favor of one of the Operating Systems.
Mabula
