• megopie@beehaw.org
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    13 hours ago

    in an era where many systems are always-on and suspend/resume working more reliably these days

    … do people not turn their computers off when they’re done using them?

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    24 hours ago

    I boot off an SSD and besides intentional delays like waiting to see if I want to pick a different kernel, it only takes a handful of seconds. I don’t really see the issue, but it’s a good cause and best of luck I guess.

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      22 hours ago

      That’s basically what the article states. Most users have fast enough systems to not bother with this tool, but embedded systems and other slow hardware could benefit from this. I imagine it’s mostly useful for engineers (and smart home hobbyists) to optimize processes or product lines.

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      16 hours ago

      5 seconds? How?

      My grub is set to 2sec.

      From pressing the power on button to an open start menu (I measure like this because the DE is still unusable for a good 5s after it becomes visible) it takes me about 36 seconds.

      I recently tried hibernation thinking it would speed things up, but it takes about 2 minutes… huge RAM bad I guess.

      (And yes, windows on the same hardware is way faster at about 17s, because it does some magic idk about)

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        Hibernation shouldn’t take long unless you actually have a lot in ram. It won’t write empty ram, it’s really more like swapping out all pages.

        Maybe your ssd is just slow? Some motherboards also take their sweet time.

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        Windows has had a “fast startup” thing for a while where it hibernates just some parts of the OS.

        I used to always disable it because I’ve run into situations where having it off prevented issues that appeared with it on.

        Fortunately I don’t have to use any Windows machines on a regular basis now, so it doesn’t matter.

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    21 hours ago

    Bazzite take a very long time to load on a 16gb ram core i7 laptop i have. Something like 30s at least. So I’d take any advice to improve that

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        6 hours ago

        People downvote but i remember when my pc would take 5 to 10 minutes to boot. 30 seconds isn’t very long, just turn it on, walk to another room, and it’s on by the time you’ve turned around and came back

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      7 hours ago

      I don’t like the idea of giving extra money to my douchebag power company when I don’t need to. Stupid mandated monopoly with mandated profit margin.

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    23 hours ago

    It takes my system 3 seconds to go from POST to a gui login, so uuhhh, what boot times

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      @Evotech @cm0002 Systemd ist eine sch…e, es sagt parallel boot, aber es hat so viele unnötige interne Abhängigkeite, es ist praktisch single-threaded wie sysv. Runit is parallel, niemand nutzt es.