The Linux daemon included with the QT version did not seem to work stand-alone (wanted to use CLI again).  It seemed to start fine, but did not create the hidden directory as before.  I switched back to a saved copy of the 7z and that worked as expected.

Also, I switched to Linux from Windows 10 on a second server (first was already on Linux and doing much better) and got ~50% hash improvement (121kh/s to 183kh/s).  I'm assuming due to how Linux assigns cores... using hyperthreaded cores gave very little improvement in hash rate.  Is there a way to assign cores in the .conf file for Windows (odd/even vs. linear)?