Dumb question, anyone here have their system crippled when they are using Zoom in Linux?

I’m in a class and we use Zoom. I’ve been bouncing back and forth between Linux and Windows and I’ve noticed that when I’m in Linux (Linux Mint, KDE and Cinnamon DE, Zoom Debian client , 24 total personnel in class connected, Thinkpad T480) that my system goes to a crawl. The system monitor doesn’t show anything significant in terms of CPU or RAM stress. In fact they just show that the load is being distributed across 8 separate CPUs with anyone of them barely hitting 20% for a few seconds. When I go to a browser and pop open a tab it crawls when attempting to type or so any kind of work. The ram load is usually 3-5 / 16 GB.

When I go to windows , the system doesn’t slow to a crawl but the fans ramp and my processor speed is pushed from a base clock of 1.6 to usually around 3.4. The temperature of the CPU hovers in the 70-80s for most of the day.

I guess the question is, has anyone else ran into a situation similar to mine? Zoom has to be the culprit but I’m also wondering if the Linux distro is pushing the cpu clock speed like windows is.

System is T480, i5-8350 with base clock of 1.6, 16 GB of ram. I did install a dual heat pipe , but mainly because I was having a lot of overheating issues before hand and my system was being crippled heavily.

In regards of what I’m using the laptop for, I’m going through a Full Stack development boot camp with React.

Update - there is one more factor I forgot, my apologies. I don’t know if this means much but I am using a dual monitor set up through the Lenovo USB C dock, yes, the DisplayLonk one. I was able to get the DisplyLink driver to work out of the box on Linux.