The difference between a Windows hosting and a Linux hosting basically consists, as you say, in the operating system of the server where your web page will be. Both servers, both in one system and in the other, have programs installed to act as a web server, so your page would really be served equally from one system or another and the people who visit your website in principle will not notice anything .
Now, behind the operating system there are a series of technologies that change. Because the web servers used in Linux are different from those used in Windows. In the same way, the programming technologies also differ, although in some cases they could even be the same. While in Linux PHP is usually used, in Windows you have the possibility of programming in ASP or .NET. The same thing happens with databases, they tend to differentiate those used in one system and another.
So let’s say, if your web page is not going to have any programming language or database, it may not matter what operating system your website is hosted on. It is often said that Linux system with Apache web server is more stable than Windows system with its IIS web server. In addition, Windows hosting is often more expensive, so you could opt for Linux hosting, since it is not for nothing that the Linux-Apache tandem is the leader in the web server scene.
If your page is going to run a database, with server-side programming, then it all depends on the technologies you prefer to work with. If you want to program, for example, in .NET you will opt for Windows and if you want to use, for example, PHP you will be more interested in Linux.
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