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> Have you ever dreamed of a system that boots in less than few seconds from power-on to working GUI?

I didn't have to dream, I actually owned an Amiga.

The Workbench disk still took a minute or so to load.

Not if you had a hard drive. I can't find a decent video on YouTube showing how long booting from a hard drive took. Does anyone know of one? Otherwise I might have to get a pile of junk out of my loft and record a video myself. From memory, I'd say my A1200 with IDE disk took about 10 seconds to boot - from power on to sitting idle in the Workbench GUI.

An early Archimedes booted directly into the GUI from ROM and was even faster.

10 seconds with a hard drive sounds plausible. Still, I would prefer a 1-second instant-on like with the C64 (ok, not a GUI). In practice though, Windows waking up from S4 hibernation is actually pretty good, only 3-4 seconds on my desktop PC.

on a gaming rig, cold boot of win10 LTSC off 2 NVM drives in RAID 0 takes less than 5 seconds from boot splash screen to desktop

i'm not going to win11 until there is a similar 'debloated' build....

YMMV:

Tiny11 shrinks Windows 11 23H2 down to pocket size

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/27/tiny11_2311/

Reportedly pretty much stable after a few earlier iterations - there's no mention in The Register article about boot time - but I'd imagine crap stripping has to speed things up.

    But just because you can does not necessarily mean you should. For one, Tiny11 2311 is not free – you will need a Windows 11 license. Microsoft also does not support it, and the company could easily roll out an update that comprehensively breaks the project.

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