🐧 Linux, product and the art of essence // Dedoimedo
｢ In 2010-ish era, with mechanical disks, I was able to achieve 15-second boot times, and as little as 8.5 seconds with SSD. In that second article, you will see an almost 100% variation in results among different Ubuntu flavors, as it happens. In 2025-26, "modern" distros boot in 15-plus seconds on NVMe storage. The software bloat managed to annul the 5-25x improvements in hardware in this period. Wonderful ｣
