[thriftwy]

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.

[tw04]

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.

[thriftwy]

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.

[alkonaut]

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)

[beagle3]

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.