Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Not Much LINUX Stuff of Late Date: 2 Aug 2026 00:52:41 GMT Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <18c606426ab89e70$22171$442584$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <18c60b7e803d0104$14391$197624$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <1147up9$39shm$3@dont-email.me> <18c6320c52eb0a0f$15335$967852$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <114crfe$rjmv$3@dont-email.me> <20260729080407.0000667a@gmail.com> <114i1e3$2jjme$4@dont-email.me> <114lndb$3u9v0$4@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net 4vT7nAmyuhWWp0ZxK8/CDgWzTvYW2TLdIj6ned/IzK+ic4tTSO Cancel-Lock: sha1:LNeOBsM2M7xJw5vamNF1z2KInj4= sha256:3Bu7nxJYUYzg68jwQQUgkjfoSJcb8HYU4KuRIpckuRk= User-Agent: Pan/0.165 (Kostiantynivka) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:89420 On Sat, 1 Aug 2026 21:11:07 -0000 (UTC), Rich wrote: > Nuno Silva wrote: >> I can't forget the moment a couple decades ago where I realized my >> Pentium II desktop was booting into the login prompt much, much faster >> than a Windows Vista laptop took to get to its login screen... >> and that was a Pentium II with less performant I/O than more current >> hardware. It might be obvious in hindsight, perhaps especially given >> the absence of a graphical login manager, but still fascinating to >> realize. > > And then couple that thought with the modern win-blows boot process, > where MS races to the username/password screen as quickly as they can > (still too slowly, but...) and only really actually finishes booting > *after* the user has logged on. Which is why a modern win box is often > all but unusable for the first five to ten minutes after logging in from > a cold startup. It is still "booting" itself, and making you wait, it's > just doing it after you have logged in instead of before you can log in. I do get upset where after a huge update Windows shows 'Do not turn the machine off. Updating' for minutes. Finally you get a login screen which brings you to 'Getting things ready for you' for several more minutes.