The Performance Impact From Different Arch Linux Kernel Flavors
For video encoding workloads like the speedy SVT-AV1 encoder or uvg266 for H.266, there wasn't much of a difference besides the Linux 5.15 LTS kernel being the slowest due to optimizations merged in more recent versions that benefited the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X execution.
For 7-Zip compression both the Linux LTS and hardened kernels were the slowest.