Am I missing something? I'm seeing like a 1-3% difference in most things aside from that Pogocache bench.
this post was submitted on 06 Nov 2025
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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
There’s a Super Tux Cart?!?!?!!
Always has been
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
I’ve noticed really good improvements with modded Minecraft. I’m now getting over 100fps on a laptop with BSL shaders set to ultra. That’s pretty good to me, considering I wasn’t even getting 40fps before while on Bazzite.
- happy cake day! 2):
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.
Granted in some cases all three Linux distributions were performing close to one another on this AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 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.
That’s not true. I noticed significant FPS boosts on some games I play, including Dune: Awakening and modded Minecraft. In Dune, I went from an average of 65fps on Bazzite to 110fps on Cachy, which was a real shock to me since I’m on a laptop. And I can now run BSL shaders on Minecraft on Ultra settings, something that used to be unplayable, with average FPS of around 124, which is over the 35fps I used to get.
The results aren’t that good with everything, but for the games I’m playing it was a huge improvement and convinced me to immediately switch both my laptop and Steam Deck to Cachy so I could take advantage of it.
Be cautious in attribution. On a different distro I had nvidia drivers installed and working. When they weren't working It would boot to a black screen under Wayland. Anyway sorted out nvidia with Wayland. Gameplay was decent but sometimes I'd get stutter in heavy detail map areas, but later I realized there was a missing meta driver package, installing that made the system aware of switching fully to the nvidia GPU and performance improved substantially.
Switching distros sometimes provides other drivers or driver versions, which can appear like it made your system faster, when it could be on par on the other OS if the right package components installed.
The whole correlation causation scenario
That huge difference cant be an optimized kernel. Must be graphics driver differences...A kernel cant double the fps you get. Maybe a few more frames but thats it. Perhaps cachy has proper drivers and you had poor drivers on the other one.
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.
Is Cachy pronounced cashy or catchy?
Yes
i pronounce it as cauchy
always my go to distro. love CachyOS.
My Legion Go runs CachyOS and it works like a charm.