With Intel having sunset Clear Linux, when it comes to aggressive out-of-the-box Linux performance there is the Arch Linux based CachyOS as the leading contender. Given the recent releases of Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora Workstation 43, if you are curious about the out-of-the-box performance here are some fresh benchmarks of all three using the Framework Desktop.
Nobody will even notice the difference. This is like neovim users shaving 15 microseconds off their startup time, or Gentoo users making a smaller binary by excluding features… Its cool and fun but when picking a Linux distro, probably shouldnt be anyones primary reason.
My Legion Go runs CachyOS and it works like a charm.
Am I missing something? I’m seeing like a 1-3% difference in most things aside from that Pogocache bench.
well that and cachys opengl performance is like 1.5x the other distros in super tux kart, so if you had some legacy games, its run better in cachy probably but raw modern hardware would have likely made it trivial. the one exception i could imagine where opengl performance probably matters is heavily modded java minecraft
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i could imagine where opengl performance matters is heavily modded java minecraft yup, that’s enough for me forever (a very long time!) jk, it’s not forever; but it’s a long time.
There’s a Super Tux Cart?!?!?!!
Gotta link for that? Can’t imagine what tuning would make that possible simply from library choices or kernel flags.
its in the review, in the super tux kart benchmark section. under vulkan, their FPS is functionally the same. Under OpenGL, Cachy is somehow significantly faster
I think this cant be some odd anomaly, because that gap is huge
Granted in some cases all three Linux distributions were performing close to one another on this AMD Ryzen AI Max+ desktop.
Is Cachy pronounced cashy or catchy?
Yes
Neither. How do you pronounce cache? Now add a Y at the end. That’s how you pronounce cachy.
So, the first one they said.
No complaints with cachyos, it just works, has solid defaults, I like it over alternatives since I like using the aur repos, but honestly now that ive adjusted to linux, all of what I need could be grabbed through a flathub appstore like bazaar/software, any disto works, the performance gains are marginal, don’t really need to use the terminal at all on cachyos, but even less so on other distros, unless you constantlly finnick/tweak and want to be on arch for that purpose, any distros fine and should work pretty much the same, most like mint are much easier to use and setup, since you never feel the need to use the terminal on those.
I think the biggest benefit of cachyos is actually all the des you can install when launching, easy to reinstall and try all the popular ones.
always my go to distro. love CachyOS.
literally manjaro 2.0 but by an aspie.
manjaro 2.0
Was that insult intentional and if yes then what did they do to deserve it?
