Maybe Win11 forces all the speculative execution mitigations that the Intel chips have, and Win10 doesn’t? Just guessing, but it’s the kind of scenario where you would feel the impact.
Dual booting Linux is easy, it’ll setup the bootloader when it’s done.
… 3rd fastest machine on the current benchmark. although realistically i don't intend on running the PBO function 24/7 which impacts the score somewhat.