Comment by fouc
5 years ago
> a free open-source operating system written entirely in Assembly. The operating system weighs only about 3MB and will boot in less than 3 seconds even inside a virtual machine.
And it really is less than 3 seconds straight to desktop UI and ready to use immediately, incredible.
I have a laptop with NVMe on which if I setup Win10 to boot without password prompt and no BIOS test, I can have a working desktop from cold start under 2 seconds. I actually hate that kind of speed since if I want to change something in BIOS / have different startup (like OS recovery prompt for example) my F2 / Del / F8 pressing has a lot of misses.
Nowadays startup under 10 seconds is more of a hinder than a gain. My 2 cents
It is not a cold start. Actually, the fast start feature of Windows 10 allowed this feat. But in essential, it is just restoring a working session to the RAM.
True, the only way to make a "Cold" start in Win10 is a reboot, Shutdown is a "simulated" hibernation.
Yeah, it's cold start. I think I know my laptop better than you
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IIRC, you can use a PowerShell incantation to reboot to UEFI setup. So it's not ideal, but nevertheless manageable. Most Linux bootloaders also have this feature.
How fast is it if you disable fast startup (which is essentially hybernation)?
Still under 5 seconds, and still I don't want it that fast. That was my whole point
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Kolibrios does this from a floppy or usb drive, not a NVMe.