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by tw04 3254 days ago
>Also, Linux doesn't mind running from HDD. Not ten years ago, not now.

That's factually incorrect. OSX, Windows, Linux, it makes no difference. You cannot hide the 8ms of response time that comes with a crappy laptop spinning drive. If you spend all your time in a web browser with ample amounts of memory... sure. If you're doing ANYTHING that requires disk I/O - whether it be launching a game, or opening a large directory, you will experience significant lag time with a spinning drive.
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thriftwy 3254 days ago
Guess what, Linux distros figured out how to sprint read everything that is needed into RAM and boot under 10 seconds. Windows takes more than a minute on better hardware by seeking the hell out of it.
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tw04 3254 days ago
That's just not even remotely based in reality. Linux is SIGNIFICANTLY slower to boot on HDD than SSD.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bgmph_bL8V4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-Rsr4E6b68

But I would once again question why you care how long it takes to cold boot a laptop. I think my laptop gets cold booted MAYBE once a month.

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thriftwy 3254 days ago
For some reason, my Windows 10 install reboots itself regularly. Or sometimes it freezes so the only solution is hard reset. That I'm not going to blame solely on Windows, but still, that's what I'm observing.
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alkonaut 3254 days ago
Is there any Linux dist, even a minimal one, that out-boots windows? TIL.

On my SSD, my Win10 cold boots faster than my Dell U2410 screen displays anything if powered at the same time (couple of secs)

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beagle3 3254 days ago
Yes. For years now (at least since 14.04), on HDD, Ubuntu boots to login screen (and once password is given, gets faster to usable desktop) than Win7, Win8.1 and Win10 on every hardware I've run both. And Ubuntu isn't the fastest booting desktop out there.
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flukus 3254 days ago
> That's factually incorrect. OSX, Windows, Linux, it makes no difference. You cannot hide the 8ms of response time that comes with a crappy laptop spinning drive.

Sure you can, you can load stuff in memory so you don't have to hit the hard drive every time you do something like open the start menu. Once in a while the taskbar likes to "refresh" itself and the icons disappear while the drive spins up. It's not a problem I ever had on windows 7 or any linux machine.

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