[bobsam]

No, but it is still quite fast.

On chromeOS network bring up is extremely fast. We are talking 1-3 seconds from cold boot to your emails have been synchronized.

My Ubuntu is almost as fast, if we subtract the 4 seconds the ugly bios screen adds.

No idea about Android, but did you read the end of the article?

[finnn]

Are you saying that 1-3 seconds includes boot time? Like, time form pressing the power button to email syncing?

[bobsam]

Edit: yes, but it depends very much on hardware. My old arm chromebook was very fast to boot but the Intel ones seem to boot slower:

https://youtu.be/rsTyiMTYq9M

[tbrock]

It's better but definitely not "extremely fast".

The mac from 6 years ago does it in 300ms which is still 3-10x faster than what you suggest is the norm for your setup.

The difference between 300ms and 3 seconds is the tipping point for being annoyed when you cannot connect to the first page you visit.

[bobsam]

You misunderstood my numbers :)

Search "chromebook boot time" on YouTube. Checkout the comparisons between a $200 chromebook from 2013 and a $2000 MBP...

[feld]

ChromeOS is not a real OS. It's an embedded appliance/cloud OS as a gateway to the web and Google services. Anyone can make a machine boot fast if it has nothing to load.

[mistat]

Just because it's not bloated doesn't make it any less of an OS then any other minimal Linux installation, it is itself built on the Linux kernel - it is just highly optimised for a very select set of software and hardware requirements.

[popman]

It's gentoo based. Just because its DE is basically just chrome doesn't make it any less of an OS. Hell, you can even run another OS in a chroot on it.

You'll get similar performance if you put your OS on an SSD, and select services that minimize your boot time.

[feld]

Can I join it to my AD infrastructure? Can I access network shares (NFS/SMB) ? I could list off a million "Can I...?" questions but the fact remains that it's a Google Chrome appliance. The detail that hidden underneath is a Linux/Gentoo base is irrelevant. This is no different than your PS4 which runs Orbis, a stripped down OS based on FreeBSD. It's not a real OS targeted for users who want a complete OS computing experience. It's an appliance with a single purpose built upon parts of an existing OS.

[rektide]

My NetworkManager still takes multiple seconds to connect to wifi, and that's definitely the same pathetic DHCP behavior. wpa_supplicant is super fast. Modern Ubuntu (17.04) is still stuck in this ancient, lethargic world.