Re: Not Much LINUX Stuff of Late

On Sat, 1 Aug 2026 21:11:07 -0000 (UTC), Rich 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 do get upset where after a huge update Windows shows 'Do not turn the 
machine off. Updating' for minutes. Finally you get a login screen which 
brings you to 'Getting things ready for you' for several more minutes.