While the benchmarks have been reasonably done with out-the-box settings, I don’t think Ubuntu has the same level antimalware protection by default compared to

While the benchmarks have been reasonably done with out-the-box settings, I don’t think Ubuntu has the same level antimalware protection by default compared to Windows and is thus less hampered. My Windows 11 with no 3rd party security software is considerably more zippy for me when I set up things like Dev Drive and get Windows Defender to largely stop scanning my working directories. I wonder how much of a difference that would make to the benchmarks.