Re: Not Much LINUX Stuff of Late

On 8/1/26 17:54, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> 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.


   Vista was when I moved all my, and most company
   servers and such, completely to Linux.

   My Gawd it was just SO horrible !!!

   Alas individual users ... sorry ... they were NOT
   gonna switch from Winders. This is The Rule. Had
   to keep coping with them. At least I could switch
   the Core systems.