I'm blown away CachyOS

My setup: Ryzen 9 5950X + RTX 3070.

I used Linux back in college, then switched to macOS after landing my first job. I've now been a developer for 9 years.

Recently, I got curious and decided to try Ubuntu 26.04. It was a mess at first. I eventually worked around every issue, but I never expected that much instability.

1. NVIDIA drivers – I was greeted with a black screen on Ubuntu, although I eventually fixed it. On CachyOS, everything worked out of the box and even came with the latest drivers.

2. WebKitGTK – I tried every tweak and flag I could think of, but my internal Tauri app still felt sluggish on Ubuntu. Nothing improved it. On CachyOS, it's silky smooth.

3. Steam (Battle Realms) – On Ubuntu, the game didn't launch properly at first. I had to manually tweak the window just to get it running, and fullscreen still didn't work. On CachyOS? Zero issues.

So far, CachyOS has been a much smoother experience than I expected.