I don't run windows seriously anymore, but on small tablet level devices i've used recently, disabling everything in the "security" menus will significantly spe

I don't run windows seriously anymore, but on small tablet level devices i've used recently, disabling everything in the "security" menus will significantly speed up windows. In particular disabling MS defender (or whatever its called this week), will provide a massive increase in disk speed as its not longer scanning every single thing your reading off the disk. This isn't so much NFTS but all the filters/etc that windows now comes with. In the past you would only get this behavior if you installed norton/mcafee and let it turn IO problems into CPU bound ones, but now its mostly unavoidable on windows. While your linux machine probably doesn't even have an always on virus scanner available.