Part of it is probably that NTFS and / or the Windows generic filesystem layer are incredibly slow per operation compared to the same stack on Linux. You can ea

Part of it is probably that NTFS and / or the Windows generic filesystem layer are incredibly slow per operation compared to the same stack on Linux. You can easily see a difference when doing things like unpacking an archive with many small files or running a build with few changed files. Or even when deleting thousands of files.