Post by @bluefootedbooby@sopuli.xyz

2026-10-04 12:10 UTC

Lately I often reminesce on the time SSD has become available. My previous laptop would take 5 minutes to fully open the system, and suddenly BAM! SSD and it was 30 seconds. I remember being blown away. How the fuck did we end up back here. How is it 5+ minutes to start a stupid OS again.

Replies (3)

@A_norny_mousse@piefed.social 2026-10-04 13:49

I remember that too! My crappy old computer. I bought the cheapest SSD they had and it was so much faster. And I’ve been thinking about the latter too. BTW I truly hope your Linux system doesn’t take 5min for a cold boot, because that would mean there’s something wrong with it, or your hardware is 20 years old, or both.

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@jokro@feddit.org 2026-10-04 16:47

Dunno, my Linux boots that fast.

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@djdarren@piefed.social 2026-10-06 21:15

I boot my work PC when I get in, then go off to make a coffee. It boots to log in reasonably well, but then takes a good five minutes to run the start up script that connects it to the company’s shared drives. When I could use Linux at work the machine mounted the drives at boot so they were available immediately. I’ve gone backwards despite being ‘upgraded’.

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