Comment on Speed test pits six generations of Windows against each other — Windows 11 placed dead last across most benchmarks, 8.1 emerges as unexpected winner in this unscientific comparison

pyrinix@kbin.melroy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I believe that once the OS reaches a user login, that still counts as the OS as booted up.

  This is exactly the kind of gullibility for which the login is displayed before the OS is done booting / starting all background processes. Don’t be gullible.

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• parzival@lemmy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  the problem is that specifically in Windows 11, it isn’t booted up when the login is shown, as integral processes aren’t started. Some of these include: the start menu, the search menu, file explorer, and many other background processes

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  • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, I’d consider time from boot to login prompt to be a useless metric. You could design an OS to show a prompt before anything else to “win” this pointless race.

    Boot to usable is the only one that makes sense.

    Ok, one case where boot to login is useful: you want to boot up and walk away for a bit, so less waiting for a login means you can login before walking away. Though, personally, I find RAM training takes a long time these days if you’re not waking from suspend, so still think boot to login is moot.

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    • calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This is important to me. More than “time until login” I’d prefer “time until queue”. I want to login before walking away because I want to open certain programs. So if an OS allows me to tell it “after you boot up, open these 3 programs” but hasn’t completely booted up, I would prefer it to one that only lets you open programs once it has booted.

      And no, configuring so it opens the same programs at startup doesn’t count. I wanna choose every time I turn on the computer.

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      • parzival@lemmy.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        you could almost certainly do this with grub somehow, but yeah I see your point

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• kieron115@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I “early adopted” Win 11 when the Ryzen 5600X came out (late 2020 i think?) and it was objectively better at release. All MS had to do was fix the start button and then not fuck with it and I’m sure there would have been way less hatorade flowing.

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  • Rooster326@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I “early adopted” Win 11 when the Ryzen 5600X came out (late 2020 i think?) and it was objectively better at release. All MS had to do was insert AI

    • All that Satya Nadella read… probably

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    • kieron115@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      also look on the bright side… at least they haven’t given Clippy sentience yet!

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    • kieron115@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      frfr. bill gates must be rolling over in his grave.

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      • sexhaver87@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        i’d like to be in your alternative universe where bill gates dies

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