On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 04:49:13PM -0500, BorgLabs - Kate Draven wrote:
PS 30 secs or less on mine as well. Interesting thing, a mate demanded a
side
by side (well using the same computer, mine) of win10 boot up vs Ali's
roll
of PCLOS aka Big Daddy. BD booted, in less then 30s, to desktop where it
took
win10 an entire 2.4 mins average to boot to desktop. It also took up
massive
amounts of initial storage space. He's now only using win10 for gaming.
He's
now "one of us!"
(Aside: depending on how you are comparing storage requirements, some of that space may be a complete full backup of the Windows install.)
Windows boot and login times are weird. I work part-time for two companies that both provide me with a Win10 PC to use. One of them boots up in about a minute, and logs on instantly. The other also boots up in about a minute, but takes about three minutes to log in, and even then there's obviously still stuff going on in the background because performance is pretty horrible for another two or three minutes.
The two machines are roughly equivalent in hardware specs, and once the second one settles down, performance is more or less the same as the first.
-- Steve ____________________________________________________
Hi Steve, I can understand the differences.
This comparison didn't allow for a win10 install backup. This was purely just the OS and we removed all background nonesense, disable all unneeded services, disable updates (the comparison was done with and without updates, no real dif). We used a custom install (and stock). Stock was almost 32GBs. We were able to reduce it to about 21GBs. Big Daddy's initial install is about 10 or less GBs. Fully loaded or what I can the insane package install is 48.6GBs.
The test was done on an i9 18 core Intel with 256 gigs of ram, 1300 watt PS, Seagate 1TB Barracuda Pro SSD. We disconnected all hard drives save for the OS/boot drive.
The best boot to desktop time we were able to get was 2 mins some odd secs with minimal background items loading. Just what was needed.
Best for Big Daddy was 28 secs average. With LOTS extra of stuff loading.
We tried to give win10 all the chances in the world.
It's likely the differences you're seeing are do to some form of customization? It may be the faster one has some kind of boot streamlining. If so I'd like to know. Could be handy.
Investigate, the collect requires this information!
Thanks for the info.
Cheers,
Kate
On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 07:19:08PM -0500, BorgLabs - Kate Draven wrote:
Big Daddy's initial install is about 10 or less GBs.
Who or what is Big Daddy?
It's likely the differences you're seeing are do to some form of customization? It may be the faster one has some kind of boot streamlining.
Time for boot up (power on to appearance of the wall paper where you can click to get a login prompt) is about the same on both machines.
It's the login itself which is wildly different: virtually instantaneous on one machine, long enough for me to make a coffee on the other.
If so I'd like to know. Could be handy.
Investigate, the collect requires this information!
I doubt I will be able to do much investigation, they are work machines, I have limited access to them (no more than two days per week) and neither the time nor inclination to spend hours dissecting the fine details of their configurations.
But if I do happen to find out anything useful, I'll let you know.
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BorgLabs - Kate Draven -
Steven D'Aprano