dbarron That makes sense, thank you.
I got lulled into thinking there is a quantifiable correlation by the article author's own words:
"So, what can explain the speed benefits? As an example, let’s look at the number of services and daemons that are running by default. They each consume system resources, such as a little memory and some kernel time. You can check on the enabled services and daemons by typing the following command in a terminal window...These are two fresh installs. As you can see, Manjaro has 24 enabled daemons, and Ubuntu has 90. That kind of overhead cannot fail to have an impact."
Let me re-phrase that. I got lulled into thinking this was so in my own interpretation of his words---no disparagement intended at all to the credentialed article writer.
