AMD or Intel Boot Shutdown UEFI optimizations

[Qqmike]

Perfect timing for weekend reading, and maybe you already have it,

Which PC Boots Up and Shuts Down Faster: AMD or Intel?

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/am...vnDE96MBvrGee6

The summary is good, if you are short on time. I only had time, so far this morning, to skim this well-written analysis. Covers Windows and Linux.

[jglen490]

Not sure what that would matter

I was never so happy as the day I first fired up my PC from an SSD. That's what matters

[Qqmike]

Yeah, going back to the old days, you know, like 2005, I still stick with Intel, chicken superstition, I guess. Also Linux. Also I keep my PC on all the time. Re-boots (upon kernel updates etc.) are so fast anyway, who cares! Now, if you are on Windows, whoa, you might care, e.g., on re-boots after updates taking forrrrrevvvverrrrr...............

[MoonRise]

Not to start a "war" on OSes, but really after all these years, MS Windows even on an SSD takes forever to load and don't get me started on updates. I really don't understand how their OS still makes the grade with everyone and the poor performance they offer.

[jglen490]

I know that. I work from home, and the gov't work laptop is Windows 10 and a moderately capable HP. The poor thing really struggles, even on a 500Mbps internet pipe.

I don't have physical desk space to keep it on 24/7, so when updates happen it's during business hours, there goes another 30 - 60 minutes lost. Boot up and complete connection via VPN so I could access all the network drives remotely used to take anywhere from 45 minutes to as much as 3 hours - some of that was on me since I was still using DSL. When I got the ISP's better pipe, that sped up quite a bit, and by the time the AF was able to optimize some new VPN connections, it's down to about 10 minutes total - for boot to complete connection.

But that did nothing for update speed, except to make the laptop more accessible to the centrally controlled updates