Re: Not Much LINUX Stuff of Late

On 2026-08-01, Rich <[email protected]> wrote:

> Nuno Silva <[email protected]> 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 _hate_ it when a system lies about being ready.  I've had plenty of
time to build that hate - I worked on a mainframe that told such lies
before Microsoft even existed.

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