Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3964 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

David Robertson wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 09:20 -0600, Eric Scott wrote:
>
> > > What I would like to see is a comparison to a Windows XP system on the same
> > > box similarly configured from start to when all the tray thingies are fully
> > > loaded.
>
>
> I think most of the comparisons that have been done show there isn't usually much in it.
> XP boots pretty quickly, despite enabling absolutely everything along
> the way. I don't run Windows at all now, but on any machine I've had
> both XP and Linux installed, Linux is slower to boot to a full runlevel
> 5.
>
> However, I don't mind waiting a few seconds longer for a more flexible
> and secure system!
>
> David


In my experience with XP, the desktop isn't usable, until quite some 
time after it "finishes booting".