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Re: Knoppix Operating System :-)

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On 11/10/23 19:36, Joel wrote:
> Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>>>> Booting my computer via Knoppix flash drive takes less than 1/10th of
>>>>> the time compared to booting time in Windows 10 on the same computer.
>>>>
>>>> This seems meaningless, having a modern (2021 purchased) SSD/
>>>> motherboard, with fully up to date Win11.  The amount of time, even on
>>>> a cold boot, that it takes to load, is trivial.  And PCI-e4 is
>>>> standard, today, so I don't have the absolute best example to offer.
>>>> That's how fast these things move, literally as a storage device, and
>>>> in progress in tech.
>>>
>>> (sci.physics and portable linux added)
>>>
>>> It should not matter, I think. On your machine, compare the time it
>>> takes for Knoppix on a flash drive to boot, to that of Windows 11 on
>>> your internal SSD. The Knoppix I think should boot faster.
> 
> 
> The post above refers to Win10, which is gigantic, as is 11, I see 11
> in current builds as merely the natural progression of bloat by M$.
> So, given that one has to run up to date builds of either version, the
> system requirements are in reality the same, 1 GHz 2-core 8th gen in
> Intel terms, 4 GB RAM, realistically a SATA SSD is required for
> adequate performance, NVMe preferred.
> 
> So, yeah, Linux will definitely boot faster on something that *isn't*
> maximized for performance today, which is PCI-e-based NVMe.
> 
> 
>> I meant to say Knoppix on an external SSD using USB interface, not a
>> flash drive.
>>
>> The difference should be machine-independent. I think on any machine,
>> Knoppix boots faster than Windows.
> 
> 
> Correct.
> 


Anything I blabber in this thread is with the general public in mind. 
And generally I don't research beforehand, what I'm going to blabber 
about in a usenet forum. So this is all lounge talk for me.

I don't think the general public has the newest best computers at home. 
Their computers are like their cars. In the streets, most cars are not 
new. And only once in a while you notice a Ferrari among them. Much more 
often than seeing Ferraris, you see cars 15 or even 20 years old. I 
think their computers at home are also like that.

And I began this thread because I think Windows is kind of a 
cantankerous OS for the general public.

Example. Last weekend, I installed Windows from scratch on an empty HDD 
in one of my computers to test a graphics card in Windows. I swear, by 
the time it was relatively ready for me, I had grown at least an extra 
1/8th of an inch of beard on my face, and it'd gone way past my bed 
time. Next morning, it still wouldn't let me comfortably use it under 
bombardments of a hundred different non-essential features that it 
wanted to impose on me. It's the craziest computer experience that a 
member of general public has to go through at home. So Windows is not 
for the general public.

Right now, I am testing Knoppix to see if that suffices. And if it does, 
then under what conditions and resources.

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