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Like if we can make a sport out of playing doom or madden fast why can we turn using firefox from boot into a sport.

Human tasks, TAS (how fast a program gets a job done), programming tasks, launch some application from boot. I think this could be just as interesting. Half of speed running is documenting glitches. It's not like tuning a boot process is more nerdy than what they are doing anyway.

Like if we can make a sport out of playing doom or madden fast why can we turn using firefox from boot into a sport. Human tasks, TAS (how fast a program gets a job done), programming tasks, launch some application from boot. I think this could be just as interesting. Half of speed running is documenting glitches. It's not like tuning a boot process is more nerdy than what they are doing anyway.

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Yeah it could. Speed running often has different record listings based on different rules. Is tas allowed? Is ntsc and pal treated the same? Setting up the hardware could be part of the fun or establishing a standard could be useful for people who don't want to deal with that aspect. Maybe a VM with specific attributes would help. Or maybe submitting a record means giving an iso so that someone can compare their efforts to others by running other's setups on their machine.

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It sounds like you are challenging me using VMs with specific specs.