Small sample set aside, the performance differences here are much bigger than I've seen in previous linux comparisons. Something has to be off right? Curious if anyone is able to reproduce these results.
this post was submitted on 28 May 2026
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Unfortunately the reviewer doesn't seem to mention a bunch of details about how the games were actually played such as, critically, which version of Proton he used. CachyOS ships its own version of Proton which pulls in a bunch of bleeding-edge features with significant performance impacts. I'm not sure if that Proton is used by default or not though; it may depend on the specific launcher used and configuration. Without knowing that, it's going to be difficult to attempt to reproduce his results.
Yeah, I like Nick but benchmarking isn't his forte. In all the articles and videos I've come across, most distros perform similarly, usually within the margin of error for most games. I can't imagine any set of optimizations that would lead to a performance increase on the level of a gpu upgrade. It doesn't make sense.
Wendell talks about cachy quite a bit, I wish he'd do some testing but I'm sure he's already busy enough.
Yeahs it's very very rare that cachy performs THAT much better. Its normal for it to be 1-3% faster then other distros since it's pretuned and all.
But beyond that... Iv only seen it have larger jumps like once or twice.
It's running through Proton, he mentioned that in the benchmarks it shows up "as playing on windows" because of Proton.
Other than that Nick is pretty transparent about what he does, if something is not mentioned it's likely whatever is default on the distro when running steam through flatpak (flatpak was mentioned).