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Destroy your boot (lemmy.world)

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[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would think the pre-known hardware configuration would make boots near instant. I never understood why this isn't so.

[–] edinbruh@feddit.it 2 points 13 hours ago

The hardware still needs to be brought up and initialised. But the software is the real problem here. The kernel gets fully up in seconds, but then you have to initialize the rest of the OS