not sure if that applies to you, but i've noticed that things like browsers on linux tend to use non-optimized version of stuff. example: i had to dig into doc

not sure if that applies to you, but i've noticed that things like browsers on linux tend to use non-optimized version of stuff. example: i had to dig into documentation and manually configure Firefox to use vaapi (video-acceleration api) in linux to make use of the built-in intel gpu when playing video. otherwise it will happily do decoding in software on the cpu. it doesn't look any different when viewing videos, except that it weighs on the cpu and consumes more battery. stuff on the mac often does work better mostly because of the extremely limited hardware configurations, so software can be shipped with a few configuration sets that will mostly "just work".