Depends on a lot of things including bloatware and anti-virus in particular which can slow a machine to an absolute crawl. In theory windows can be faster than

Depends on a lot of things including bloatware and anti-virus in particular which can slow a machine to an absolute crawl. In theory windows can be faster than Linux in some cases; but usually isn't because most developers don't actually take advantage of those APIs and just do everything synchronously which is stupid slow on Windows. That said Linux is catching up super quick in terms of those sorts of things. EDIT: grammar