>Certainly it holds for some things. Two points: 1) at one point in time, I triple booted between Windows, BeOS (yes it's a long time ago) and Linux: Linux and

>Certainly it holds for some things. Two points: 1) at one point in time, I triple booted between Windows, BeOS (yes it's a long time ago) and Linux: Linux and Windows booted far slowly than BeOS (don't remember exactly but it was >1min while BeOS was 14sec) and afterwards felt less responsive than BeOS.. BeOS is dead though (yes, I know about Haiku). 2) Buy a SSD and you won't have to wait anymore 'a full minute' to have your computer in an usable state..