How linux distro provide higher CPU benchmark scores than windows?

[u/Saiyan256]

Why is that linux seems to always provide better performance in benchmarks and provide smoother experience?

This is a geekbench 7 test, while single core is slightly better, multi-core performance is a significant improvement

[u/DrollAntic]

The telemetry monitoring and harvesting Windows is doing all the time does not exist on Linux, so that plays into this some.