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Ubuntu 26.04 might be the fastest release yet.
With a new kernel and GNOME 50, this raccoon can run.
This is also the first Wayland-only release.
Ubuntu 26.04, aka Resolute Raccoon, is just a few days away -- April 23 -- and it's received a decent performance boost over version 25.10, according to Phoronix benchmarks.
You can view the graphs and quickly see that 26.04 outperforms 25.10 across nearly every category, including PyPerformance, the Godot Game Engine, Kernel Compilation, and more. In fact, I didn't see a single test where 26.04 lost to 25.10.
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Faster is always the goal, even though it's not always the reality. his time around it is. I took the latest beta out for a spin, and the performance gains are quite noticeable. Applications installed and opened faster than I've seen on any Ubuntu release in some time.
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