Linux is far faster than Windows. That’s old news. It’s why Linux runs 90 percent of the world’s top 500 fastest supercomputers, while Windows runs 1 percent of them.

Is Linux the fastest OS?

The fact that a majority of the fastest supercomputers of the world that run on Linux can be attributed to its speed. … Linux runs faster than Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 along with a modern desktop environment and qualities of the operating system while windows are slow on older hardware.

Do games run faster on Linux?

Gaming on Linux has improved leaps and bounds over the years. Some games even run faster on Linux than they do on a Windows PC, as a recent Red Dead Redemption 2 benchmark battle on YouTube demonstrates. It’s an exception. PC games generally run faster in Windows than they do Linux, rather than the other way around.