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Mint boots SHOCKINGLY fast, like sub 2 seconds, on a couple of systems I have. Its basically as fast as “booting” one of my old Commodore computers!
Did not see “faster than Commodore 64!” coming!
As an American I am required by our Constitution to use bizarre units of measure. 😊
Last I checked, one desktop computer with Mint installed = seventeen TRS-80s.
That's equal to 68 TI-84s!
<2 seconds from powered off to being able to start to open e.g. a web browser?
If so that is indeed truly shocking. Curious what your stopwatch says from powered off to a homepage loaded ready to use.
So that's time on a reboot as measured from when the UEFI splash goes away to being presented with the logon screen. That feels roughly the same as Commodore's "Ready" prompt, at least to me. Although the case can be made that the desktop should be up and loaded too. I'd have to enable "auto logon" to get that one.
As I said to @Liz@midwest.social I'm starting to wonder just how fast I can make it with a bit of work. The hardware is nothing special but after the UEFI screen goes away GRUB comes and goes so fast it's unreadable and then...you're just looking at the logon screen.
Right now that PC is tied up running TestDisk and it'll likely take another 2-3 days to finish. Once it's done and I can reboot I'll do some measuring and tweaking.
Heck yeah LMK!!
Booting from a full power off state?
Reboot but a cold start isn't exactly fair because the Commodore doesn't have a BIOS / UEFI splash screen. Although now that you bring it up I'm slightly interested in timing it and seeing exactly how fast I can make the cold start process.