afaik far bigger factor is that windows file io is just generally much slower than linux. both of these are further exacerbated by av solutions which are ubiquitous in windows. that is why ms introduced "dev drive" in windows few years back which in their own benchmarks showed biggest gain specifically with git: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2023/06/01/dev-dr...
replyI hardly see developers with Windows anymore, I guess this is one of the many reasons.
replyI have to use Windows for work. With WSL, it's actually perfectly fine! Which is really more of an endorsement of Linux than Windows.
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