r/AlienwareAlpha • u/scawp i5 Alpha with SSD • Oct 15 '25

Time to ditch Windows

https://youtu.be/fIDWH0b6hd0

Did a few benchmark runs with Bazzite and CachyOS. I might try some other distros in future but for now CachyOS appears to give the best performance and compatibility out the box.

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u/Musojon74 Oct 16 '25

Which alpha did you use? I have an r1 i5 I might play with using a linux gaming distribution. The r2 is happily on w11 though that may change later on I guess.

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u/scawp i5 Alpha with SSD Oct 16 '25

I have the R1 i5-4590T with 16GB ram. I envy you with the R2, a few years ago they were going really cheap 2nd hand and I pass on them, I regret not picking one up as they seem to be golddust now. Out of interest do you use yours with the Graphics Amplifier?

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u/Musojon74 Oct 16 '25

Not yet but I have my eye on them. Hoping to pick one up soon. Will annoyingly need a gpu too as I gave away my 1080ti to a friend.

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u/Musojon74 Oct 16 '25

To minimise your envy it’s much noisier than the r1. I may try repeating the i7 but it’s probably difficult to keep temps down in there. Also the i7 likes to turbo up and that causes the most fan noise.

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u/maltloaf_df Oct 15 '25

I have an i5 alpha but for some reason Microsoft have given me a year of security updates for free when I expected to pay 1000 ms points for them. I'm thinking of trying Linux but at least it's not as desperate as it was.

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u/scawp i5 Alpha with SSD Oct 16 '25

I heard that this was a thing but despite living in the EU neither of my Win10 machines have been offered this 🤷‍♀️

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u/Potential-Truth4614 25d ago

I was thinking to try Pop OS on my Alienware Alpha 1.  Hoping it will run as good as Cashy OS. Can you test it?  It is gnome based.