I feel like the boot time is almost entirely uefi ram timing shenanigans these days
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Fun fact about monitors turning on slowly: did you know Windows has a bluescreen code for that?
The WIN32K_POWER_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT bug check has a value of 0x0000019C. This indicates that Win32k did not turn the monitor on in a timely manner.
That's right, Windows will panic and throw a bluescreen if your monitors take a little too long to wake up. Had the pleasure of dealing with this suddenly becoming an issue and causing wide bluescreens on wakeup after an update back in mid-2024, on any Surface Dock using DisplayPort with specific Acer monitors.
Woah woah..... is there someplace in the event logs where this would show? Does this mean that you cannot run a windows computer headless?
What's this "boot" of which you speak?
Do people really turn their machines off these days?
You've got to reboot after kernel updates, otherwise it can't load new modules. I've been confused at least twice why something didn't load until.I remembered the reboot.
Every day
Yes, I'm not wasting my hardware life and electricity for no gain.
Thermal cycling
yes
I hate my monitor for that. Entering the bios is guesswork about when to press a key if I remember what key to press. Also I can't turn it on too early before the PC or it will go to stand by after not receiving a signal for two seconds and then take even longer.
I want a monitor turns on and stays on.
Let me guess, samsung odyssey? Had one of those, never again.
Friend even called me that he has fucked up his pc rebuild - his Samsung monitor was just not waking up because it literally turns off.
I've learned the hard way that there's only one decent Samsung product line - from big appliances to little electronics - and it's their phones (and even those leave questions on privacy).
I heard Samsung's SD cards are good
Their SSDs are/were considered amongst the best options, but I haven't looked into them since the 970 Evo days and they could be crap now for all I know.
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That's funny, while I still buy Samsung TVs, I hate their phones. So much of what their phones can do is usually locked to only working in Samsung's apps and those are universally dog shit. The phones themselves are also often privacy and user control nightmares.
Granted, there isn't a lot of good choices for phones these days. I'm still running an old LG phone and have been looking outside Android as my next possible solution. But, I also haven't had a reason to upgrade.
Have a Samsung TV and it's by far my least favorite. Turns off at random, takes forever to switch inputs, turns on at random...
As for phones I'm eyeing the Motorola RazrFold, since they're supposedly offering it Graphene-ready
Turn off all of the Energy Saving/Eco Solution crap. It will stop turning off and you will get s brighter inage that doesn't shift in brightness.
You should also switch to Movie mode in the picture settings and set dejudder/deblur (under Motion Clarity) to 0 while you're at it so it doesn't turn everything into 60 fps with fake frames.
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I have a modern Lenovo monitor (2020) that takes longer to wake up than my hp monitor. So annoying.
Edit: aforementioned is from 2011 and is a zr2040w.
The Lenovo monitor is a d22e-20
Folk w/o FDE ...
What?
Full disk encryption
(I can't beat monitor powering up.)
And you can't forget the BIOS password
Slowing you down. Ah, same. I may have used higher than default iterations π
Get a ardunio and wire up a bop-it so you can unlock your computer faster.
Maybe dropbear and unlock really fast from another device where the monitor is already on?
I'll just get one of those closed sauce humanoid robots dependent on AI megacorps to input the pass at superspeed.
Or just tell it to keep the monitor turned off & only power it on once desktop shows up.
The future is near!!
Maybe if you used TPM key storage to automate the unlock. But ofc that reduces security
Keep going. Kevin can get smaller, leaner, faster and hopefully has apparmor or selinux already.
My laptop boots much faster than my desktop PC (both running Fedora 43) despite my desktop PC being much faster.
Does your desktop have more RAM, or faster RAM? If so, the training step can take much longer. In your desktopβs BIOS look for a setting called βMemory Context Restoreβ and turn it on. That can dramatically speed up boot times.
That setting is no joke, I was pissed I didn't enable it sooner
My machine went from 45+ seconds to 13 for boot
Yes to both. I'll take a look for that setting, thanks!
I thought arch was all about reducing bloat. Is gentoo better than arch?
Gentoo recompiles everything, so it can do optimisations based on your particular setup Arch can't.
Obviously arch can be rebuilt pretty easily, gentoo does almost nothing that arch can't, and rebuilding itself osn't one of those things. Look up ABS.
You can also just recompile the kernel and any utils yourself on Arch, if you want
Yeah, but I'm using Arch cause I have better things to do. You guys have fun compiling your own stuff without me.
The only times I've compiled the arch kernel was for benchmarking
You can recompile the kernel in any distro. In Gentoo, you have to compile the kernel (because you compile everything).
In Gentoo, you have to compile the kernel
This is not true any more. Gentoo provides sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin as an option.
gentoo arch?
Arch basically happens at a granularity of individual packages. You decide from the ground up which packages you actually need, which is how you end up with a comparatively minimal setup.
But yeah, if the package itself is big, then Arch doesn't usually deal with that. The Linux kernel comes with drivers for most hardware out of the box, which you can remove, if you know you won't need that hardware.
And while this can also be done on Arch, it is Gentoo's thing to do precisely that.
To add to this, the big thing you get when using Gentoo is to setup your compiler to use all of the optimizations for your exact CPU/other hardware.
The binaries for arch are built for generic x86-64, while your Gentoo system could bet setup to include AMD-specific optimizations or to remove code paths that you would never used based on your hardware.
The result will be that the binaries will typically be smaller and optimized specifically for your hardware.
The downside is that a system update will take you half a day of churning your CPU on compiling.
Arch is about telling other people what you use. If you use gentoo, you can take way more pride in you installation.
Arch is pourover coffee; Gentoo is those ridiculous Rube Goldberg setups that take 45 minutes to make a single cup. Both are for hipsters.
Ubuntu is that shitty Keurig machine with big plastic pods, but they call them "snaps".
Does that make Debian standard filter coffee? The coffee everyone can get behind π«Ά
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