Linux vs. Windows on HCC - a study

[Someguy1982]

what we care, is for claimed credit, because granted does not represent anything we can work with,
granted goes by comparing the claimed credit for a WU per it's crunching participants, and taking some average,
that is why people have said that Linux could be suffering from lack of OCed machines and dedicated crunchers in comparison to windows, which is much more popular, and even more with casual users

I brought it up because both linux machines I run take heavy hits on the granted credit VS claimed on a couple projects. Sometimes it will grant me down to 18% of the claimed credit, so initially I suspected that somehow linux was hit harder pointwise by these projects for some reason I cannot determine. I don't seem to have this similar problem with windows.

What it boils down to is I thought perhaps something in the calculation to figure out Granted credit vs claimed credit was suspect. And since the granted credit is what actually gets reflected in WCG point totals, it seems to me that BOINC claimed credit is worthless if the granted credit is going to cut the score down by 82%.