Does running Linux over a Windows OS return more PPD?

[Unclebadtouch]

I thought I read, somewhere, that running Folding@home on Linux can earn the user up to 20% more PPD. Is there any truth to this? There are many people that fold w/ significantly more GPU power than my 3 GPUs I have running 24/7, since 9/2016.

If there's any truth about what I read, what Linux OS can return the most PPD more efficiently? And how does running the folding client under a Linux OS accomplish this feat VS a Windows OS, of some kind, such as my Win7 and my Win10 OSes?

I plead guilty if my post isn't in the best sub forum, such as '3rd party software'.

[bikeaddict]

The Folding.LAR.systems database can be used to compare. There is some variation between work units, but Linux tends to earn higher average PPD.

https://folding.lar.systems/gpu_ppd/overall_ranks

[TPL]

Linux really is somewhat more efficient.

[toTOW]

Linux runs usually faster, but it has it's downsides (like FAHControl being unusable on most modern distributions because of dependencies to old python versions that have been removed).

[bikeaddict]

Fedora 35 provides a Python 2.7 package that works with FAHControl as long as you edit the script to have #!/usr/bin/python2 at the top.

There is also a fork of FAHControl that works with Python 3.

But you can always set up remote access to FAH on Linux from a Windows machine with FAH installed but not running.

[ajgringo619]

There's this Github project - https://github.com/cdberkstresser/fah-controlArch - that uses python3; available via Arch AUR as fahcontrol-gtk3-git.

[Unclebadtouch]

Thanks for the knowledge, fellas.