Originally Posted by badass
How long does your machine take to boot though? 40 seconds?
Not long enough for it to be an issue for me
Originally Posted by badass
On the whole hibernation front - to speed boot up times it is a bodge. From a keeping various apps open in the same state as you left them it is good.
...which is why it's there. Bloody handy for laptops as it uses zero battery. Hardly a bodge!
Originally Posted by badass
I suppose when I'm saying that all "modern" OS's aren't as good - reletively speaking - for home users compared to what they once were is down to a few things:
1. They take excessively long to boot
...because users want to use lots of hardware, and lots of software (with lots of features). You can't have it all (yet).
Originally Posted by badass
2. They are too resource hungry
Well users will want silly things like a GUI or 3D graphics support. Bastards.
Originally Posted by badass
3. They over complicate things
They changed to serve different needs thought - they got out of the bedroom and became a utilty for all the family. In other words, they got easier to use. And not just a "bit" either.
Originally Posted by badass
It comes down to the lazy short termism that was introduced to the market by Microsoft and IBM all of those years ago.
Windows (now) has very little relation to Windows >then<
(thankfully because it really did suck)
Originally Posted by badass
Did you know that until around 2002 - around 4 years after Windows update was rolled out, it was still completely stupid? If you didn't reboot the computer aftter each update was applied, you simply cound not guarentee they had installed properly. Then they finally worked out that before queuing a file to be changed on next reboot, the updates should check to see if another update had also queued the change and was in fact going to install a newer version of the file already.
Lazy and dumb. For 4 years.
...and yes they don't get things right. Personally I hate Windows Installer with a passion for example - because it's flipping daft and flawed (witness: the cleanup tool MS produce for people stuck in the "can't install it, can't uninstall it" loop). I also hated guru meditations, or being stuck with a buggered startup-sequence.
That said, for all the evil, there's a heck of a lot of good - my folks took to XP remarkably well. I don't think they'd have faired well with 16bit home computers.
Build yourself a top-end SSD array
Reality 1: Currently, my nVidia drivers take (up to) 15 seconds to 'wake up' on this PC. That's pathetic!
Reality 2: Nothings perfect, at the time the Amiga was pretty close though
