OS Boot Times
Discussions focus on boot and startup times for operating systems like Linux, Windows, and servers, including personal experiences, comparisons across hardware, and debates on whether they are acceptably fast or unacceptably slow.
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Yes they take significantly longer to boot.
Can we agree that 10 minute boot time is not fun?
Cool, didn't know that. Is the boot time fairly slow compared to booting a normal PC?
Thanks, didn't know that. Is the boot process slow?
That is fair, the startup time takes forever.
What do you mean by "startup time"? Booting into Linux? Opening a window?
Yes, whenever I'm not using it.From boot menu to booted is only about 6 seconds (gradually tweaking that to be faster).
If Linux could boot in 5 seconds on low tier hardware in 2008, why do I need to wait ~30 seconds to boot it on modern hardware in 2022?
This seems extraordinarily bad. Is there something weird about your machine? My completely vanilla ubuntu boots in 5s and Ubuntu is considered to be a slow-starting Linux.
It's an immutable law of the universe that consumer computers will always take at least 30-45 seconds to boot. If yours is faster, wait a few years... the developers will allow enough regressions to slip in that it'll go back up again.