I stopped reading when I read that Mr Genius here judges computer speed solely based on how quickly his computer boots and shuts down. Objectively, how quickly

I stopped reading when I read that Mr Genius here judges computer speed solely based on how quickly his computer boots and shuts down. Objectively, how quickly your computer opens programs and undertakes operations (encoding, decoding, rendering, etc), are far more important than the speed involved in turning it on and off, things which might happen twice a day each. There are also many things that could impact how quickly a PC boots up that don't reflect that computer's hardware, but honestly crying about boot speeds after about 2013 is crazy - post-Sandy Bridge era processors and memory are all fast enough that you should only have boot speed issues if you are literally doing something wrong. My Windows 11 12700 PC boots in 8 seconds (and that's with fast boot OFF). I abhor Windows 11 but acting like Windows XP is a panacea (particularly if the machine is connected to the internet) is as laughable as it is asinine.