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Starting to get the kinks worked out and doing normal life stuff on new OS. Hopefully I'll tell microsoft to piss off one day.

Update on my keyboard issue: When the boot select screen comes up the Linux Mint is the first option, if I let it do its little countdown for 8 seconds and it boots into linux everything is fine. However, if I don't wait the 8 seconds and I just push enter to expedite things to boot faster then my keyboard does not work. I have tested this numerous times with the same results. I guess I am learning to be more patient now!!

Starting to get the kinks worked out and doing normal life stuff on new OS. Hopefully I'll tell microsoft to piss off one day. Update on my keyboard issue: When the boot select screen comes up the Linux Mint is the first option, if I let it do its little countdown for 8 seconds and it boots into linux everything is fine. However, if I don't wait the 8 seconds and I just push enter to expedite things to boot faster then my keyboard does not work. I have tested this numerous times with the same results. I guess I am learning to be more patient now!!

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[–] • 4 pts (edited )

Welcome aboard, mate. It took me a long time to join up because of uneasiness w/ learning an entirely new system, but it works much better within all the art programs I use.

On another note, Mint and Ubuntu from completely off to completely running and usable on a new Dell xps17 takes 16 seconds. Regular windows startup takes about 9 seconds.

[–] • 2 pts

You've got me beat, mine is 21 seconds not counting the 8 second pause for it to auto select booting the Linux

[–] • 1 pt (edited )

Those numbers are for Linux cold-booting to a useful desktop, which is extremely fast. To boot that fast, Windows is not cold-booting but resuming from kernel hibernation, a feature known as Windows FastBoot. In general, Windows never fully shuts down except when rebooting to install updates or if you physically force shut-down.

Even though Windows appears to be fully booted, it continues to load, and will be sluggish for some time, long after Linux is fully functional.

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I looked it up to get more info on the subject and appreciate your comment. I'm not very tech savvy and was first introduced to Linux through the board on POAL and /g/ technology board on 4chan.

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Windows will take shutdown -s for a proper shutdown.