Linux vs. Windows boot time

[rmadrid2001]

All Windows users should know this ad, Kill Bill Tux (in this situation will be Windows and MS)

[molbal]

@rmadrid2001 I have made this video, but actually I'm using Windows as a main OS on my PC. (Now I have Ubuntu on it, but not Mandriva)

[sanctusen666]

LINUX IS SHIT

[molbal]

@sanctusen666 That was a pretty intelligent comment

[dwdwsk8123]

windows wins!!

[Aqlor]

my lubuntu opens up in about 22 seconds on a 4 year old laptop with no tweaks, windows takes much longer

[0M9H4X]

WTF you slowed the linux video down,

my linux mint 9 (which is based on ubuntu) boots in 22 seconds,

windows XP SP2 takes 1 minute and 53 seconds on the same PC.

[molbal]

@0M9H4X

No, I did not slow it down. I had a bit slow computer, thats all :)

[NiGhtMarEs0nWax]

who cares about boot time anyway? i don't use linux because it boots faster ( which mine does ), only fanboys care about such nonsense, besides, mandriva is a bloated noob distro. learn to install and customise a real distro like gentoo or arch then come back and try it again. hell even an ubuntu installation with no DM will boot in 5 seconds. ( discounting grub delay )

[patachu666]

fuck man, dunno what's your config (486 dx/2 or some pentium) but my 2006 laptop boots faster than this.

[CrazyPersonWithHair]

My Windows 7 boot time is pretty fast it takes 9 seconds to fully boot and includes typing my password.

[CrazyPersonWithHair]

@CrazyPersonWithHair and it's a netbook

[homokladin]

Windows is unusable for one or two minutes after you see desktop. At first, you are presented with some inactive screenshot of your desktop, then another few services are loaded, then the screen flashes(you get real icons now) and after that, you can use the computer.

[ttj89]

hey waht notebook do you have?

I have an Acer Travelmate 634 LCi back from 2005 and I run puupy linux on it.Boots under 40 seconds

[StreamLineV3]

Whats the song name? Thx

[molbal]

@StreamLineV3 Vangelis - Chariots of Fire

sorry for late reply

[narigaCDO]

1 minuto pra iniciar o mandriva que demora o meu slackware inicia em 30 segundos

[pepelapiu2004]

This video doesn't do Linux justice. I have a fresh install of windoze 7 and Karmic Ubuntu.

Ubuntu: 23 seconds boot

windoze : 4 seconds boot

Of course, if I were to use both for a couple of years, Linux will remain at 23 seconds without ever slowing down while windoze will require a reformat every 6 months or end up getting atrociously slow.

Linux, live free or die!!!

[molbal]

Cool, now i have a win7 (boot time 30 seconds) and an ubuntu 9.10 which boots 60seconds, but on a netbook

[pepelapiu2004]

Ooops, I made a typo. The windoze boot time is 34 sec., not 4 sec.

Your Linux boot time really is 60 seconds? That is a very long time ....... which distro do you have installed? Ubuntu?

[molbal]

Ubuntu 9.10, but it is on a really really slow computer (intel atom 1,6GHz integrated VGA, 1G ram) but i keep it in sleep mode, because that netbook is really one big battery ;) So it wakes up from sleep in a few seconds. Doesn't matter

[SjoerdReligion]

The boot time is really long in this video..

My (Ubuntu 9.10) computer boots and logs in within 36s (fully useable)..

I've got a 2.6Ghz processor (singe core) and 1 gigabyte ram..

[molbal]

On my netbook, Ubuntu (9.10) boots (but it waits a bit at grub and bios checks the things) in exactly 60 seconds. But windows 7, on my desktop computer boots within 30 seconds. I know now, what was the problem with the system in the video. The hard disk was very very old. (15Gigabytes and very slow reading speed). Defragmentation was not enough and it was also slow after the reinstalls. But i have a new system now, and i'm happy with it. :D

[TrenchcoatSteve]

My Ubuntu Linux 9.10 boots in 32 seconds.

[mrcuipap]

That's not right. My mandriva is so fast. It boots in about under 30'. I wonder whether your system is having something wrong is configurations :P

[molbal]

I know, that wa my old computer. :) But Im now using Ubuntu, and Win7 both. I know my configs were horrible :D

[molbal]

I know, but my config was very old.

[aquaphobicFish]

WOW that is INCREDIABLY slow boot times .... im useing a 1.6 ghz intel core 2 duo and my comp boots to debian stable custom compiled kernel in under 8 secconds

[donatr93]

Linux, live free or die!!!

[molbal]

You're lucky. :P :D

[molbal]

I used Ubuntu too. And i am going to use that soon. Mandriva is just for some months. But I have a quite slow machine, P4 @ 2,4Ghz, Geforce 5200FX video card 128Mb, 1GB ram.

[holymonkey3]

mine is a laptop, 1.73 ghz, intel gma 810 whatever, nothing special.

[holymonkey3]

i have a boot time on ubuntu ultimate edition 2.0 [8.10] of 35 seconds, and i am using it as an editing studio! on windows, 3 min. 45 secs and it still boots for another 30 seconds after seeing the desktop, on any windows machine.

[Vindix007]

Windoze sucks!

Linux or die!!!

[molbal]

I agree with you. (both) Slow boot can be annoying, but not a big problem. But Linux crashes hardy ever. :P Not the same as Windows XD

[Kuaijin]

Linux is actually pretty stable compared to Windows.

[anonfucker]

Boot time doesn't matter.

Uptime matters