Lähettäjä: Simon Walter Päiväys: Vastaanottaja: dng Aihe: Re: [DNG] Earth-friendly micro-desktop Devuan demo
On 07/25/2016 01:31 AM, Simon Hobson wrote: > I've come to the conclusion that "fast boot" can be counter productive.
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> SWMBO has a Windows laptop that's quite quick to get to the login screen, but from the disk activity indicator it's clear it's not actually booted - just prioritised getting to that screen. I still haven't trained her to wait the FIVE MINUTES it takes for that disk light to slow a bit before expecting anything to work. As it is, she clicks on an icon and "nothing happens" - or nothing seems to happen until a few minutes later the program actually opens when the system gets the chance to load it from disk.
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> So which is "worse" ? A system that is "slow to boot", or a system that is fast to boot but "doesn't work" when it apparently is booted.
Spot on. I remember one company that employed 30 odd Windows
workstations and the switch to Windows 7 was a huge training issue in
this regard. The Windows admin tried to delay the login prompt for this
reason. I'd say, just get an SSD if boot speed is that important.