The Elf wrote: ↑Wed Sep 15, 2021 8:00 amOneWorld wrote: ↑Wed Sep 15, 2021 12:03 amThe Elf wrote: ↑Tue Sep 14, 2021 11:00 pmOneWorld wrote: ↑Tue Sep 14, 2021 9:44 pmIt’s not so much the boot up time that irks me but the interminable updates which to come on a frequent basis.
Are we talking about the same software?!

Cubase updates are two a year - if we're lucky!
No, how long it takes Windoesn't to get a head of steam up
Ah!
This is yet another of those 'don't know what I'm doing, but I don't have the same experience' moments. My laptop takes little over a minute to be up and running, from cold. I very rarely see Windows updates, though when I do they're a couple of minutes in the installing. And my laptop backs itself up incrementally to my NAS weekly, using Acronis, without me even knowing it's happening.
I must lead a charmed life when it comes to PCs and Windows, because I rarely recognise the problems other people have!

That said, there seems to be ever-increasing support for Linux, and I enjoy using it - it's pretty much how Windows might be had it not been overloaded with junk over the years.
To some, a minute is an eternity, some, Mozart, even wrote a world famous waltz that lasts a minute. I remember back to when you could go from switch on and through the gears in 10 seconds or less and declutter a machine in
one fell swoop. In computer terms we are becoming bloated in the same way 25% the nation is now said to be obese because we gorge on flabBurgers and Croak-A-Cola, sort of emulates the Windows story.
As you say........
" it's pretty much how Windows might be had it not been overloaded with junk over the years."
Yes thanks, you make my point for me. That junk referred to hardly characterizes a charmed life, more a beleaguered one in terms of computing.
If I had a choice between 2 computers, one that booted in 10 seconds and one that booted in 60 seconds, but each computer did the same job, except the second was plastered with go-faster stripes and fake spoilers, I'd go for the first of the two choices