Win10 vs Fedora 28: Boot speed
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@scottalanmiller this was actually always the case. MS ran into boot time problems a while ago, and their solution was to get into the UI as quickly as possible, while continuing to load everything in the background. This is why Windows is damn slow after you boot and slowly picks up speed as everything REALLY loads.
The proper timing would be from getting out of POST and to being able to actually use the desktop, not to seeing the desktop.
I remember several benchmarks being published some 10-15 years ago, showing several additional minutes of severe slowness even when your basic desktop seemed to be loaded.
TLDR: this is an illusion or a dirty hack, depending on your preference in terminology
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@scottalanmiller said in Win10 vs Fedora 28: Boot speed:
@Pete-S said in Win10 vs Fedora 28: Boot speed:
It's logical that linux is slower to boot since it supports more hardware in the kernel and has to do more checks to find out what it is running on. Could probably make it a lot faster by recompiling the kernel. There are embedded linux versions that boots extremely fast but only has what it needs in the kernel. And that goes for the rest of the services as well.
Windows is usually not 100% ready when it starts to show the login interface. So it appears to boot faster than it actually does.
But honestly though, I reboot my laptop maybe once a week if that. Doesn't sleep work in Fedora 28?
I never get completely reliable sleep on anything... Windows or Linux or MacOS. Except ChromeOS. So I never test it.
I got perfect sleep with Windows 10 and Fedora on my Latitude 7270 I think it is.
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@Obsolesce said in Win10 vs Fedora 28: Boot speed:
@scottalanmiller said in Win10 vs Fedora 28: Boot speed:
@Pete-S said in Win10 vs Fedora 28: Boot speed:
It's logical that linux is slower to boot since it supports more hardware in the kernel and has to do more checks to find out what it is running on. Could probably make it a lot faster by recompiling the kernel. There are embedded linux versions that boots extremely fast but only has what it needs in the kernel. And that goes for the rest of the services as well.
Windows is usually not 100% ready when it starts to show the login interface. So it appears to boot faster than it actually does.
But honestly though, I reboot my laptop maybe once a week if that. Doesn't sleep work in Fedora 28?
I never get completely reliable sleep on anything... Windows or Linux or MacOS. Except ChromeOS. So I never test it.
I got perfect sleep with Windows 10 and Fedora on my Latitude 7270 I think it is.
Also, boot up is super quick on it with booth OSs.
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@dyasny said in Win10 vs Fedora 28: Boot speed:
@scottalanmiller this was actually always the case. MS ran into boot time problems a while ago, and their solution was to get into the UI as quickly as possible, while continuing to load everything in the background. This is why Windows is damn slow after you boot and slowly picks up speed as everything REALLY loads.
The proper timing would be from getting out of POST and to being able to actually use the desktop, not to seeing the desktop.
I remember several benchmarks being published some 10-15 years ago, showing several additional minutes of severe slowness even when your basic desktop seemed to be loaded.
TLDR: this is an illusion or a dirty hack, depending on your preference in terminology
Definitely, my Linux is usable the instant I "see" the desktop. My Windows can take forever. We have a WIndows gaming rig for the kids and we teach them to power it on and to go do other things as full boot up can take over five minutes, even on a screaming fast machine. If you try to use it before then, things don't work reliably.
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@bbigford said in Win10 vs Fedora 28: Boot speed:
@gjacobse said in Win10 vs Fedora 28: Boot speed:
@scottalanmiller said in Win10 vs Fedora 28: Boot speed:
From what I've seen, Windows 10 is the fastest. Microsoft really has high speed booting down to a science. I think they beat everyone at that. Fedora seems quite a bit faster than Ubuntu, but both are very slow compared to Windows 10 on the same hardware.
Sadly, just a place where Windows kicks butt over any Linux that I've seen. Not the biggest deal, but certainly a place where Fedora or Ubuntu could improve.
That is a bit frustrating considering the 'push' for getting away from MS and all of it's applications. I do know that I can improve performance some by putting in a SSD drive over the 7200RPM (SR) that's in it now. and I will at some point. Working on the priority list first.
5 minutes??? God, is your drive failing I wonder...
An SSD will get it down substantially. I want to say my Samsung 850 Pro boots Fedora nearly as fast as Windows 10; they are seconds apart, and that is around 5-15 seconds.
860 Pros came out not too long ago. Here's a 512GB if you can fit it in the budget; 256GB is cheaper of course.
Thanks for the link. That is definitely in a good price range.
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@gjacobse said in Win10 vs Fedora 28: Boot speed:
@bbigford said in Win10 vs Fedora 28: Boot speed:
@gjacobse said in Win10 vs Fedora 28: Boot speed:
@scottalanmiller said in Win10 vs Fedora 28: Boot speed:
From what I've seen, Windows 10 is the fastest. Microsoft really has high speed booting down to a science. I think they beat everyone at that. Fedora seems quite a bit faster than Ubuntu, but both are very slow compared to Windows 10 on the same hardware.
Sadly, just a place where Windows kicks butt over any Linux that I've seen. Not the biggest deal, but certainly a place where Fedora or Ubuntu could improve.
That is a bit frustrating considering the 'push' for getting away from MS and all of it's applications. I do know that I can improve performance some by putting in a SSD drive over the 7200RPM (SR) that's in it now. and I will at some point. Working on the priority list first.
5 minutes??? God, is your drive failing I wonder...
An SSD will get it down substantially. I want to say my Samsung 850 Pro boots Fedora nearly as fast as Windows 10; they are seconds apart, and that is around 5-15 seconds.
860 Pros came out not too long ago. Here's a 512GB if you can fit it in the budget; 256GB is cheaper of course.
Thanks for the link. That is definitely in a good price range.
Worth noting that I've used many other high end SSDs (Plextor, Intel, etc). Samsung manufacturers their own NAND, controller; everything, top to bottom. Theirs absolutely fly compared to any others I've used. For consumer use of course, not infrastructure.
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@dyasny Yeah your right, its an illusion. Windows is not starting at a completely shut down point so it has way less to go until the desktop is usable again.
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@jmoore said in Win10 vs Fedora 28: Boot speed:
@dyasny Yeah your right, its an illusion. Windows is not starting at a completely shut down point so it has way less to go until the desktop is usable again.
that's sleep mode, that's a little different.
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@jmoore bringing linux out of sleep or suspend is also much faster
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@scottalanmiller said in Win10 vs Fedora 28: Boot speed:
@jmoore said in Win10 vs Fedora 28: Boot speed:
@dyasny Yeah your right, its an illusion. Windows is not starting at a completely shut down point so it has way less to go until the desktop is usable again.
that's sleep mode, that's a little different.
actually - even "shutdown" has a different type of state it normally goes into making bootup much faster than normal. If you want a full shutdown in Windows 10
shutdown /s /f /t 0or hold the shift key down while clicking shutdown from the start menu.
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@scottalanmiller I wasn't referring to sleep mode. Windows use to have varying degrees of shutdown, I'm pretty sure it still does.
