CachyOS Delivers Lead Over Arch Linux, Pop!_OS & Ubuntu On System76 Thelio Major
Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 29 May 2026 at 10:00 AM EDT. Page 5 of 7. 38 Comments.
👁 PyBench benchmark with settings of Total For Average Test Times. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS was the fastest.
With the Python scripting benchmarks, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS was surprisingly picking up a fair number of wins over CachyOS and Arch Linux. With Pop!_OS still being based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with the aging Python 3.12 series, it's no surprising that it's slower than the newer distributions on Python 3.14.