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the yolo distro, using their users as guinea pigs to test patches that haven't even gone upstream yet
Such benchmarks only test the default configuration, right? And ignores any optimizations one would do.
Yes, since with optimizations on OS level and with custom kernels you can pretty much tune it to any other result.
I have optimised and customised myself right into a kernel panic. I suppose that's one of those "other results".
Differences are inconsequential aside from image manipulation, asyncio_websockets, librsvg, and AV1.
Differences are inconsequential aside from image manipulation
Well, that's the one I care about, so that works out well :)
Lol, did you do that on purpose or did PopOS shoot themselves in the foot, with their terrible way to write their name?
Thats just how it actually be.
I actually really dislike that abot pop os tbh. I know its silly. But branding does matter. And a name is about as close to an identity as you can get.
Oh, it's probably my client, it says Pop*OS@ for me 😸
I'm always interested in Micheal's comparisons but rarely see anything more than an illustration of newer libraries etc showing natural improvements. The trade off of Arch distros is the increased workload of managing a constant change & inevitable instability. Arch devs are notoriously for kicking out capricious system borking changes and the Pacman package manager is rather weak at dealing with cumulative changes. 2% or 3 % potential ephemeral improvements in speed vs hovering over the cli 'fixing' things seems a poor bargain to me.
I used Arch for 10 years and in that time I could literally count on one hand how many times my system broke. Three of those times were user error. I was on CachyOS for about a year and a half and never once had issues. Now on Artix and I've once had my system get borked once (due to one package that was an easy downgrade). I'd hardly call 3 system borks in ~13 years "inevitable instability". Rolling release =/= constant breakage. I wish this myth about Arch and Arch based distros would die.
I agree about Cachy's improvements being meh. I noticed very little improvement (barely perceptible if at all) going from Arch to Cachy. I mostly stayed with it as long as I did for convenience.
At the age of 67, having tried and used everything, not just booted a vm, but honestly used, I found Arch a much higher maintenance burden. System borking changes are definitely a thing - see the "needs manual intervention" messages that happen often. I know Arch users seem to revel in this and gloss over it. Thats fine for them but I no longer get any sense of personal empowerment from tedious obsessive hand holding of any operating system. To me it's just unnecessary distracting extra work.
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