Such benchmarks only test the default configuration, right? And ignores any optimizations one would do.

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.

Differences are inconsequential aside from image manipulation, asyncio_websockets, librsvg, and AV1.

Lol, did you do that on purpose or did PopOS shoot themselves in the foot, with their terrible way to write their name?