2007/5/1, Kirill S. Palagin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> -----Original Message----- > From: James Knott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2007 3:47 PM > > > Don't forget, MS has done in the past and apparently still > doing, is using hidden API, that give their own apps better > performance. Can you prove your assertions? > Ever wonder why Windows is so slow to boot, compared to > Linux? And by boot, I don't mean to the point where you can > see the desktop. I mean to the point where you can actually > do something. Boot times (to main menu being reasonably clickable,): XP - 23 seconds Vista - 50 seconds Ubuntu 7.04 - 50 seconds Suse 10.2 - 1m 13 seconds. Regards, K. Palagin.
I very much appreciate Kirill's attitude - these are questions which cannot be dealt with by appeals to one's subjective likes and dislikes, but only by testing. My experience is that boot times are dependent on numerous factors, not least antivirus, antispyware, and firewall protection, which in my case are configured to start up automatically upon booting. Running a dual boot system (two 250 GB harddiscs, one with Windows XP Home installed, one, invisible to Windows, with Ubuntu 7.04) on an AMD 64 X2 5000+ machine, I boot via GRUB and choose which of the systems to use. After choosing I must wait 36 seconds to login to Ubuntu, 25 seconds to Windows, a minimal difference of some 11 seconds. But the difference in the respective times it takes to login (write login name and password) and go to a «clickable» screen is rather more considerable ; for Ubuntu it takes some 22 seconds, for Windows 75. This difference, I suspect, is dependent upon the need for more extensive protection against malware in Windows.... Henri
