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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'.

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

Linux really is somewhat more efficient.

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).

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.

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

Thanks for the knowledge, fellas.