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My 10 year old laptop (which has been running Linux for 9.5 years now) has an SSD, so it'll restart in a normal amount of time. Even old laptops no longer have HDDs only
Have you tried swapping in a 21$ SSD?
I've on more than one occasion saved an old laptop from being replaced simply by slapping a cheap SATA SSD into them. The owners are almost always convinced that they needed a new PC, when all they do with it is browse Facebook and watch TikTok all day.
I've never experienced major slowdowns when running Linux on old laptops. It helps that OS fragmentation appears to be a problem exclusive to Windows
Fragmentation is only an issue if you run a HDD.
You can always forcefully shut it down while it's rebooting.
does that...help ?
edit: obviously it does; i misread the post.
Kids these days will never know the frustration of booting a PC on an ancient HDD. I'd turn on my laptop, go do something else for 3 minutes, log in, go do something else for everything to wake up, then I can start using it.
My MILs computer literally takes about 10-20 minutes to boot up. When I told her I'd help her upgrade it, she said she's fine with it. She turns it on and then does a load of laundry while she waits. It's painful.
It's a good motivator to do laundry I guess ๐.
I remember my parents saying โhey donโt use it yet it has to warm upโ and it really had to otherwise all sorts of unexplainable things would start to happen. Cold start of pc in the morning was really important ritual that no cc cleaners could shorten.
Also viruses that would modify browser to something funny. A president of my country with a serious stare appeared at one point in my browser stating that this pc is seized by the government.
It scared the shit out of young me with all the pirate CDs I had from street vendors. I donโt think even my windows was legit but a pirated one installed by PC parts business as an extra
To be honest I hate modern web and only Lemmy is feeling cool somewhat again. Everything else about digital landscape has become lame af. Without the struggle things lose any meaning
Them running dual-boot with Windows as the default boot choice.
Whaaat my laptop is 13yo, It is faster than new, just because I added ram and ssd 4 years ago
Same, I have a 2012 laptop, just added RAM recently, with ssd replaced few years back. Boots in seconds.
So it's 4yo.
It is actually amazing how much difference ssd made to my 6 year old laptop
Tfw some new laptops don't even have a place to put more RAM.
Boggles the mind that laptop people just rolled over and accepted this bullshit.
I don't understand why many desktop environments don't have a confirmation when you click one of those. Only ones I know that do it are GNOME and KDE
The confirmation is annoying for many GNU+Linux users. It's like asking are you sure you want to power off even though you had to use three or four keys or mouse clicks just to get to the poweroff menu.
not if Arch LInux is installed on it
Just turn it off right after it shuts down before the OS starts booting again. (Or just turn it off whenever, it's not like there's much chance of filesystem corruption these days. Although there is a chance of registry corruption if you're using windows and it's updating, which is honestly worse to fix)
Modern Windows (and Linux) is very hard to kill. You can unplug it all day without issue. Registry corruption and similar issues have not been an issue in decades.
51 years8 seconds
$ systemd-analyze Startup finished in 2.277s (firmware) + 1.145s (loader) + 1.644s (kernel) + 3.211s (userspace) = 8.279s graphical.target reached after 3.211s in userspace. $ lscpu | awk -F ' +' '/^ *M.* n/ {print $1, $2}' Model name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3517U CPU @ 1.90GHz $ vmstat -s | awk -F '^ +' '/[0-9]* K t.* m/ {print $2}' 3901984 K total memory
ESC....ESC....ESC....
Sometimes I wait to enter the bios so I can press the power off button while there.
Even worse if you clicked "Update and restart"
I have this laptop from 2019 it takes like 5 minutes to start up
Pls explain meme.. ๐ฅน Am a Linux user, haven't experienced that ๐ค I don't see the fundamental difference between powering off Linux machine and restarting it. Presumably you'd have to power it on again at some point? Or is it that you'd have to wait for it to restart to power it off again? ๐ค Cause then it's pretty safe to hold the power button for hardware power off. Once it's restarted, all the user data is synced to disk. Hard power off before user login will not lose any important data 99.99% of the time.
You could also just press the power button at the GRUB screen, assuming you have one obviously.
When running a somewhat descent Linux distro even on a potato rebooting usually takes like ~15s. With windows even on recent hardware probably 5+ min
Windows boot times aren't nearly that bad actually.
I love having it idle at 100% for 30 mins, fan at max, just to update some windows nonsense. Updating 500 packages on linux is done in 5 mins including the download. Like how do you even manage to make the update process THAT bad if not on purpose? I am baffled by that. It's a thinkpad dual core i7 with an SSD. It only runs Debian now thankfully.
Me, who still daily drives an Intel Skylake laptop from 2015: ๐คก
The boot time isn't actually that bad, it's like 6 seconds with Win10 and an SSD.
Your Skylake laptop from 2015 boots faster than my Zen 4 desktop from 2022 (with a PCIe Gen 4 NVME SSD!)
This thing takes 25 seconds just to POST. The fucked up thing is that it used to be even worse, but has slowly been improving with BIOS updates. The good news is that once it's up and running, this machine is ready to fuck. Programs open the second I click the icon and loading screens don't exist in games anymore. But it's still disappointing that AMD can't figure out how to make their shit boot faster.
Have they fixed that 100% disk usage bug in Windows yet? Seems to disproportionately affect laptops with magnetic disk's and just chokes the whole system making it unusable
Is that what the fuck I've been experiencing?
Jesus Christ this is it I'm finding a damn DVD and getting Linux.
I still have my old laptop from college for whenever my PC is dead and I need a backup device. It's from 2008 and still has an HDD. There's Windows 7 installed and last time i booted it up the boot up time said 316 seconds. It's ridiculous.
Yes but their RAM management (even though the desktop may use too much by default) seems way better.
On windows? WHAT? You drunk? Linux has zram. This is where the discussion ends immediately.