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CachyOS vs. Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS On Intel Wildcat Lake + 8GB RAM (www.phoronix.com)
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Often times when testing different Linux distributions or comparing Windows vs. Linux it's on leading flagship desktop or server hardware, but today we are looking at the Ubuntu vs. CachyOS vs. Windows performance at the opposite end of the spectrum. With the new CHUWI UniBook $449 laptop powered by Intel Core 3 Wildcat Lake and with 8GB of system memory, here is a look at how those three operating systems compare across a variety of workloads.

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[–] 13 points 1 day ago (6 children)

All operating systems were updated and at their defaults during the benchmarking process.

So it's really a KDE vs GNOME thing?

(ducks and runs)

Seriously, the article doesn't say after 2 pages.

Anyhow, the results are as expected: both Linux distros definitely perform better than Win11, but between them there's little difference.
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  • [–] 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    both Linux distros definitely perform better than Win11

    Not exactly, at least the final results show that Windows 11 is in between both distributions:

    I personally doesn't care much about Windows and am surprised the gap between Ubuntu and Cachy is this big.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago* (1 child)

    Long time Linux mint user. I switched to cachyos. I heard that cachy was faster but I wasn't expecting much. But it really do feel snappier.

    The big difference for me is battery life. I do virtual therapy so hour long video call fairly regularly. A video call would take me from 100% to ~20% battery on Linux mint. On cachyos its 100% to 50% battery. General use it lasts long but I don't have numbers for that other than more.

    I have similar laptop too. 8GB ram, but I think I have an i5.

    Edit: KDE on cachyos. Linux mint cinnamon

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  • [–] 3 points 23 hours ago

    I have an old laptop I just use in the mornings for web browsing. Was running Mint for the last year (first computer I switched form Windows) and it worked well, but was quite slow (same as when it was running Windows). Browsing was fine if the browser was left open, but opening any app took quite awhile.

    Anyway, I run Cachy on all my other computers and after having a Mint issue figured I'd just swap it. It's like a whole new laptop now, snappy and pretty instant for apps. Was quite surprised. Also the touch screen works, wasn't expecting that.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    I stand corrected then.

    But I still don't care. It's not like any test result will make me go back to Microslop.

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  • [–] 1 point 20 hours ago

    Agreed. Also these kind of tests are always weird, because its mostly default settings. While this makes sense in Windows, it only makes kind of sense in a Linux distribution, because as you said its actually more about stuff like the desktop environment. But at least, because it is default configuration, we know what it means and contains. I also don't care about the results for Windows, just compare the Linux vs Linux stuff, that's more interesting to me.

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