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by kevin_thibedeau 3390 days ago
Faster booting to a truly usable desktop rather than 1 minute to get a non-functional screen then another minute for enough of the OS to be brought up to do anything.

Page compression for low memory PC's is nice to have too.
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enraged_camel 3390 days ago
Boot time is a non-issue if your boot partition is on an SSD, which is the case for most serious users today.

I actually measured the difference. My Windows 7 used to boot in ~20-22 seconds. With Windows 10 it went down to ~15-17 seconds. Sure, Windows 7 was a bit slower. However, it also didn't have forced reboots like Windows 10 does, which in my eyes more than makes up for it.

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xaldir 3390 days ago
Clearly 5 sec on the occasional normal boot is meaningless.

Unexpected reboots with awful long "installing updates" screen is an issue however.

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