Linux vs Windows Performance

pretty much everything runs faster on Linux than on Windows.

Interesting - is performance comparable to Windows or is there a significant hit?

I was about to say it might be windows and use linux, since perf benchmarks on windows can be far worse for the same chip than linux, but you are using linux already.

No, since Windows is less efficient in general.

That's not what's happening in this case. Linux is getting much lower performance than Windows on the same laptop due to a firmware bug.

I'd guess that it would be slower on Linux by design, but not in a malicious way. They must be using various win32 apis and might have needed to shim them on Linux. Maybe they had assumptions on NTFS performance, paging behavior etc. All would contribute to a performance difference.

Keep in mind that sometimes the answer is negative; Linux sometimes outperforms Windows on the same hardware.

Fair enough, but it's got much better performance on Windows than on Linux.

Did you use endpoint protection in both systems? In my experience, that is often a factor of performance issue on the Windows side (and an unfair comparison when it is not used on Linux)

Windows flash seems to have better performance than linux or mac. I have dual boot older Dell and the difference between Windows and Linux is significant. Same holds for my triple boot netbook: linux and mac are much slower than windows.