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I'm running Manjaro Linux with Deepin Desktop on a Dual core 0.9Ghz CPU with 8 GB of memory.

Boot speed from off to login is less than 5 seconds. From hibernate it's instant.

My girlfriend brought similar desktop to work and people with windows couldn't believe the machine was that fast. It runs circles around their new windows laptops with tons of memory and cpu cores.

Firefox loads in a second. Kingsoft office also loads in less than a second.

I think it's time people start to understand what is out there now as options for their laptops. And in particular, deepin desktop is very fast and beautiful.

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So some code has quirks/bugs and your conclusion is that people should switch to Linux...

There's this concept of right tool for the right job. And even if you save 2 seconds of boot time, that is meaningless when you encounter a similar bug with your software and waste a day, or when you simply waste time because you needlessly switched to an unfamiliar OS.

Just as a note, I have a Windows 10 booting on a decade old Lenovo netbook. That's a single core 1.6GHz Atom with 1.5GB RAM. It boots in ~10s. Much of it is BIOS. And yes, I can type an email with no issues. You should really try switching to Windows 10 and this dirt cheap netbook. :)

I get less than 5 second from off to login on a 5 years old Windows 10 laptop (dual core, 10 GB, SSD). So there are options that can work fast, not just on Linux.

It has nothing to do with Linux though. This morning my ubuntu 18.04.1 running kde took 2 minutes to boot and then 3 minutes and a half to load the desktop. Then it'd hang on the menu when typing/searching for an application, I'd wait for the menu to disappear and then it'd work. shrug

My Windows laptop boots incredibly quickly. I ruthlessly uninstall bloatware and, crucially, I have a fast SSD.

I run Debian Unstable/Testing, at 2000+ tabs on Firefox and three weeks up time the used memory is 3.21G/15.4G.

The year of the Linux desktop was some time in the 00's, just that few people noticed.

.9ghz in 2018!? What machine is this?

Intel Core-M?

A SoC-like, high performance, low power mobile CPU. Performance per MHz ratio is high, allows reasonable performance with low clock frequency.

Yep it is. Also the computer don't have fans so it's dead quiet at all times. It's an Asus Zenbook ux305.

It could be my 2017 Dell XPS 15.

If I really want to extend battery life, forcing the CPU clock down to 800 MHz is a good idea.

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