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by IshKebab 683 days ago
Nah you're misremembering. I'd say it's stayed about the same. I think it took a step improvement when SSDs became available so maybe it's slightly better than it used to be.

Do you not remember when it used to take minutes to boot your PC? Starting MS Word could easily take 30s. Unless your computer is broken it takes nowhere near that long now.

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> Do you not remember when it used to take minutes to boot your PC? Starting MS Word could easily take 30s. Unless your computer is broken it takes nowhere near that long now.

No, it never took that long if you took care of your PC, e.g. not have 50 things in your startup programs or a 99% full undefragged hard drive.

But yes, SSDs improved startup times massively, and were responsible for masking how bad software has gotten in the last 10 years.