Ubuntu 25.10 is looking quite nice in the performance department ahead of its official release later this week. On various systems tested thus far, Ubuntu 25.10 is delivering nice gains over Ubuntu 25.04 and compared to the current Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The latest Ubuntu 25.10 benchmarking at Phoronix is looking at the Intel Core Ultra Lunar Lake performance using the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition laptop.
For those curious how Ubuntu 25.10 is looking for Intel Lunar Lake laptops, I recently wrapped up some fresh benchmarks comparing the out-of-the-box performance on Ubuntu 25.04 to the near-final Ubuntu 25.10 state.
The six-month update to Ubuntu Linux means moving from Linux 6.14 to Linux 6.17, GNOME 48 to 49, Mesa 25.0 to Mesa 25.2, GCC 14.2 to GCC 15.2, and a variety of other package updates. Even with Intel Lunar Lake being about one year old, the updated open-source software stack of Ubuntu 25.10 is still helping to tap additional performance on current-generation Lunar Lake laptops.
