Edit: I think I was wrong about the cluster sizes. I did it again today and it did say 4096 bytes for the large ntfs volume. No loud chugging sounds, but still horribly, unusably slow compared to the performance of ssd.
My usb flash drive with ventoy can be tricky as well. Couldn’t see it unless I was in uefi mode at one time today which I found odd. It doesn’t seem to be an issue anymore but I rebooted three times and it wouldn’t see it until I switched modes.
With windows installed on solid state storage, going backup to a hard disk is utterly unbearable! I don’t want to say how long it takes to get to just a login screen, at minimum five minutes, possibly more. Not usable, especially in a “backup” situation where it’s all that’s working at that time. Windows NEVER used to be this slow–I’ve got it cleaned up too, blocked LOTS of microsoft domains at the host file level, disabled a few scheduled tasks and when it’s connected to wi-fi, always manuallu, it will be only when my pi-hole vm is running.
I remember Windows 2K on a laptop with (or desktop as well) 32 MB of ram, enough to play flash games online. I miss those days of software effieciency. It’s like computers wenr from lean, healthy, decently programmed devices with just the basics, to being slow, lethargic, data-gorging fat slobs that are morbidly obese and they’re happy (well I guess the devs are paid to be happy), and don’t have any qualms about their lifestyle.
I like the idea of the lynx, and w3m browsers or dillo (which I only got working once) browsers. Simple basic and fast.
Imagine all the “slow” computers that are thrown away not because of hardware, but because Windows is such a peice of forced-obsolescence, mining slavery supporting, e-waste generating money stealing burden on people’s lives. Not just the people that have to deal with slow computers, but the people forced to live in squaler so Microsoft can make a million more dollars in pre-bundled Windows-included hardware sales.
If Windows still performed as decently as Windows 7 (could run on 256mb – needs 512 for instill, not bad, better than opensuse 42!) I wouldn’t complain. If it still was as lean as Windows 2000 but with the extra 20GB for hardware drivers, I would have GREAT respect for the system.
It’s just turned into such a pile of shit, that (tries to–but can’t on my system) collect untold amounts of data, causing more servers to spin up and recieve process, sort and backup copies of data that NOBODY is aware of as NOBODY read the terms–and even if you did, it probably doesn’t cover it all.
Fedora 34 kde boots in maybe 40 seconds or so to the login and maybe 15 seconds to idle to the desktop on a used 7200rpm hard disk with less than a 64mb cache, I think mine are 16mb cache. I makes me WANT to use Linux because it is clearly the better quality system, written by programmers who actually care about what they produce. I bet I’d be quite surprised to see just how fast this system could boot with it on my ssd. I could then kick up my cpu to max speed but its at nearly a quarter speed with only two cores up with smt. Windows task manager and the resource manager are excellent tools, and my CPU doesn’t go up past 0.97GHz even when loading my pi-hole vm. The ONLY and I do mean the only reason I still use Windows is because after connecting to wi-fi, in ONE CLICK I can start a hotspot to share my network and force DNS settings on wi-fi devices that don’t expose such settings. HostAP is text file based, complex, and I have to patch my wireless drivers on Linux to work with hostap. I haven’t tried iwd much but I hear it only works with 2.4Ghz. I feel better with 5Ghz knowing it bounces off things more, rather than traveling through them as easily.
I feel better now and I’n sure if anyone is reading this has ever run an SSD clone of Windows on a hard drive will understand just how unbelievably slow it is. It’s NOT this slow if you install directly to a hard disk–oh it’s slow, but not this bad. It’s like it’s realized just how much shit it can do at once and tries to do the same on a significantly slower media.
