• bleistift2@sopuli.xyzOP
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    21 hours ago

    Is it Windows 98?

    Jokes aside: You have to count the time from starting to boot Windows to restarting it, letting the computer do its pre-boot whatver-it-does-es, to back to grub.

    And I find a minute a long wait.

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      17 hours ago

      Ah! You’re moving goalposts! The meme is about choosing an OS at boot time, not up, down, up again.

      I’m in the game less than 60-seconds from that point. And that’s on an old i5-1135G7 NUC, 32GB DDR4, god knows how old the SSD is, been through 3 PCs without a Windows reinstall.

      Yes, Linux almost always smokes Windows on a reboot, but it’s not that big of a deal anymore.

      CAVEAT: I should note my Windows install is from an official ISO, not some manufacturer’s crapware.

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        11 hours ago

        I’ve noticed that my windows always takes a minute to launch when it wants to sell me on either its surveillance bullshit or force windows 11 on me. And because I don’t launch windows that often, that is basically every time. Otherwise it’s quite fast at 10-15 seconds.

        Linux usually boots in around 10 seconds (including loading the DE after login), though sometimes it gets stuck for a bit after login for some reason.

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      20 hours ago

      That almost never happens for me and even when it does, it’s pretty fast.