Ollama Inference Outruns Windows on Linux

This is the kind of delta that makes OS choice a first-order performance decision, not a preference detail.

• –The +118% swing on Qwen 3 30B A3B is big enough to treat Windows and Linux as materially different deployment targets for Ollama.
• –Similar Windows slowdown reports have shown up in Ollama's own issue tracker, so this does not read like a one-off bad run.
• –The post does not isolate a single culprit, so driver, runtime, scheduler, or power-management differences are all plausible; fair comparisons need the same launch path, drivers, and background load.
• –For homelab users chasing tokens/sec, Linux still looks like the safer default when throughput matters more than convenience.