Windows 10 Pro vs Linux Mint - Which one boots the fastest?

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4 жыл бұрын

I took two similar Lenovo x240 laptops and loaded one with Windows 10 Pro and one with Linux Mint. Let's see which one loads the OS the fastest.
The Windows 10 Pro machine has a slightly faster processor i5-4200 vs i3-4010 so you would think that it is slightly faster.
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@vatinp 4 жыл бұрын

Can’t be any clearer than this.

@neontiger2007 3 жыл бұрын

I abandoned Windows back in 2014 cause of a defective update of W8.1 that forced me to format the system and reinstall after getting BSODs at boot time. I'm such a happy Linux user now.

@abdullahal-shimri3091 3 жыл бұрын

My wife has windows 10 on her laptop and it was incredible slow and full of spyware. She was going to recycle the laptop when I told her to give it to me. I installed mint on it and used a windows 10 theme - now she wants the old laptop back lol

@anonymouswhite352 2 жыл бұрын

@@dagaffer2269 no the Linux is faster

@himindoors9501 4 жыл бұрын

Have you tried this with a fully shut down W10? The standard W10 'shutdown' is a form of hibernate, to give users the illusion of a fast start up, so you aren't really doing a true comparison. FYI my wife's Thinkpad running W10 is noticeably slower after 12 months normal usage, while my Linux machines show no significant slowdown after three years usage.

@MikeDancy 4 жыл бұрын

I didn’t know that about the shutdown/ off option.

@hypnoticlizard9693 4 жыл бұрын

@@MikeDancy Yeah, its called "fast boot" in the bios. Its like hibernation mode where a page file is used to store the user session. In fast boot a much smaller page file is used to store the windows kernel in memory so it doesn't have to do a full boot.

@seadve 3 жыл бұрын

Its fast startup not fast boot. Fast boot has something to do with drivers in bios level boot, while fast startup is cold shutdown meaning it closes all users then hibernate (which is used by windows by default).

@diswardexia6105 3 жыл бұрын

Now its make sense! If W10 shutdown is another form of hibernate, that explain why HDD wear down faster and become much slower over small period. More severe damage if you use SSD!

@seadve 3 жыл бұрын

@@diswardexia6105 i don't know what you mean by 'that explain why hdd wears much faster' what are you referring to?

@BlizzGMX 3 жыл бұрын

Honestly, the speed differences are negligible between 10 pro and mint 20 for most use cases, and if there are noticeable differences in speed, it's because speed is heavily dependent on what you're trying to accomplish. I use them both for different reasons, and they are both perfectly capable OS's. I know linux users love their OS, but windows 10 pro is a very nice OS if you're unbiased and doing tasks that just work better using windows.

@MikeDancy 3 жыл бұрын

I like windows 10 too. If the hardware can run it, I’ll usually choose windows. But Linux mint is so smooth.

@22b_gc8 3 жыл бұрын

Except that Windows is very resource dependent. I just switched to Mint 20.1 in my almost 9 year Vaio E series laptop with 500 GB HDD and 2 gb of RAM. The difference after the installation is staggering. It now serves as a family PC.

@BlizzGMX 3 жыл бұрын

@@22b_gc8 True, if you're using an older pc then it limits your options, and even newer versions of linux might decrease your overall pc experience depending on how old the pc is.

@22b_gc8 3 жыл бұрын

@@BlizzGMX It will mostly serve as a browsing machine, but yeah maybe the coming versions of Linux may also not help. Adding that it is somewhat upgradable ( like RAM and storage. So should be covered for atleast next 5 years or so.

@arfarfarf256 2 жыл бұрын

My windows 10 laptop was almost completely unusable. So slow and dysfunctional I thought it was hardware failure. Tried mint xfce on it, now it's quick, snappy, and reliable. Night and day difference.

@AnirudhSinght2h 4 жыл бұрын

Man you did a good job :) Dont worry about people commenting about having the same hardware

@l1nc6525 3 жыл бұрын

I have a dell optiplex running Windows 10 with an i5 and 8gb ram, I'm thinking about seeing I can't get a Linux install for gaming, just a few basic games, that won't slow performance as much as Windows

@natalya_volochay 2 жыл бұрын

Can I use linux Mint for example, if I dont know anything about linux? Been on windows my whole life

@smartleaders4768 3 жыл бұрын

can you put a more detail on the linux mint version you are using?

@sebebse9094 3 жыл бұрын

he said he recently installed both on the laptopss for testing, it's mint 19.1

@macblink 9 ай бұрын

I installed windows 10 LTSC and then Linux Mint on 2 laptops (4gb ram, both clean installations) windows 10 LTSC always booted in aprox. 30 seconds, while linux mint always took longer than a minute, sometimes 2 minutes.. there's no way I'd leave them with linux, windows 10 LTSC ftw

@whisperviz1346 2 жыл бұрын

The problem with windows is, cheap office laptop (below i3) will laggy af to the point it's not usable. can't even watch youtube at 480p without lagging.

@csandrade87 3 жыл бұрын

Fast boot is enabled on Windows, right?

@osamaanees8406 3 жыл бұрын

Yes. Windows will always lose as it runs lots of backgrounds apps. It's blotted as hell. Even if it booted faster once you typed in the password the desktop icons will take a second to load. Press the windows button and it will take some time to load. Click on the volume button and it will take some time to load. Linux is very light and it doesn't take time to load the desktop (compared with windows obviously it takes some time but still better then windows)

@pistarrafernandez9830 2 жыл бұрын

@@osamaanees8406 mm what? With a ssd that doesnt happen, I got a acer nitro 5 and boot in 10 seconds, I can even open chrome in almost an instant after typing my password 🤡

@osamaanees8406 2 жыл бұрын

@@pistarrafernandez9830 SSD is so fast that it doesn't matter what your using. It's like saying a car with more horse power will be faster. That's obvious. Efficiency is what this video is discussing. How much power can a car use in a specific amount of fuel.

@SirLancelotS Жыл бұрын

@@osamaanees8406 my PC boots windows 10 under 20 seconds (boot + login) meanwhile debían gnome takes like 45 seconds (boot + login)

@osamaanees8406 Жыл бұрын

@@SirLancelotS Hold shift and then click shutdown on windows. Then turn it on. Anyways Linux by default slows down it's boot while loading the grub menu. You can disable that. You can tweet more settings to make it faster. The Desktop environment and login manager also matters.

@estebanod 2 жыл бұрын

Literally was at the same time and uh.. Fast booting is due to the SSD not the processor 🤨

@Gregor_ph 4 жыл бұрын

Сюда надо лайкосов побольше...))

@user-vv3db3pk9u 4 жыл бұрын

Согласен

@SirLancelotS Жыл бұрын

Lol you gotta log in sir, Linux takes longer than windows to show the desktop after you log in

@JustinCrediblename 3 жыл бұрын

I just switched my ryzen 3700x desktop to linux mint 20. It's so fast that it's crazy. When I was booting from the USB 2.0 thumb drive, mint was about as fast as my old windows 10 pro. I am so done with having windows as my main OS. Never again will I be stuck in their little ghetto.

@Motishay 3 жыл бұрын

The difference was minimal to non-existent. I don't think this was a proper test

@motoryzen 3 жыл бұрын

2:25 to 2:35. Mint barely beat it. slower processor ( yes.by 200 mhz per core..but still..the win machine had a true 4 core while the linux machine had a dual core with 4 threads..facts are facts). this is proof enough Mint is lighter weight than windows

@csandrade87 3 жыл бұрын

i5 4200 (U or M, whatever) is dual core with HT. Laptop's i5 become quad core on 6th gen (HQ) and 8th gen (ULV).

@lucia_9437 3 жыл бұрын

Mint is fast but i think Windows is better, anyways.

@ddljddlj704 2 жыл бұрын

i love telemetry feature of windows.

@s.retina7608 4 жыл бұрын

You have not the stuff, don't do the vidéo !

@tranceeris 4 жыл бұрын

what a stupid comparison of OS'es. First of all you must do the comparison on exactly the same hardware and second, windows uses fast boot which is a semi hibernation shutdown and should be turned off to make the comparison relevant.

@MikeDancy 4 жыл бұрын

I'm making a video now where I take the exact same computer and install both OS's on it and will compare them side by side. I got a lot of thumbs down on this video