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> And 10s is not the worst boot time out there. A Librebooted ThinkPad takes 10-15 seconds to reach a login prompt which I think is perfectly satisfactory cons
by Mr_Minderbinder 1y ago
> And 10s is not the worst boot time out there.
A Librebooted ThinkPad takes 10-15 seconds to reach a login prompt which I think is perfectly satisfactory considering that prior computers with roughly equivalent computing power (say a Cray machine) would have taken considerably longer to get fully up and running from deadstart. Think of all the tape drives, the cooling system, the frontend mini etc. that would have to spin-up, start up or initialise.
Therefore statements like “Remember when turning a computer on meant instantly jumping into code?” are confusing since I would guess that the vast majority of computer systems throughout history did not satisfy this requirement.