Recent testing revealed that Arch Linux, Pop!_OS, and even Nobara Linux, which is maintained by a single developer, all outstripped Windows for the performance crown on Windows-native games. The testing was run at the high-end of quality settings, and Valve's Proton was used to run Windows games on Linux.
Even if that headline were objectively true, it wouldn’t really mean much for a specialized OS with one purpose to excel when measured against an OS made to do almost anything and everything.