What kind of operating system takes 11 minutes to start and then requires yet another reboot in order to work properly?

Can’t be windows, the worlds least bloated os

Windows 11? Nah... Can't be.

/s

I know this one! The answer is Windows XP on a 2001 machine with an HDD.

I timed mine back then and it took anywhere from 8-13 minutes to boot completely.

Man, glad those days are over. Booting from an SSD is less than 30 seconds and it would take a special kind or idiot to fuck that up on an OS level

It’s a feature. How else would users be motivated to buy new hardware?

@Hazarth I think booting time with HDD got better in win7, and then got worse again in win10. I wonder how it is booting with an HDD in win11

What kind of people use that?

Are we to the point that some people have never used a computer without SSD?

I had to build an embedded Linux box. I ran it from a usb stick. The OS didn't have write permission unless directed by the user. So the usb stick never got any wear on its flash under normal use. It was a 486/586 single board computer I think. IIRC it booted in less than 5 seconds. I mean, all it had to do was boot minimal services and start a serial to tcp server. So it wasn't heavy lifting.

@Lensflare "It’s a feature. How else would users be motivated to buy new hardware?"

Are you sure you didn't work for Apple?

@YourMom I‘m sure. But ostream did and he said that Apple stole the idea from Microsoft. I have no reason to doubt that.

@YourMom I also heard that Apple has mind erasers similar to the Neuralyzers from MIB, for those who leave the company, so I might have been working for Apple after all. You might have, too.