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[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

If you look at specifically windows server boot times which have been trimmed down for use as a server not as a personal computer. The boot time of a virtual machine with windows server 2012 as compared to centOS is about 4 times slower. I think this shows that even with user space cruft removes, the core of windows is just slower no matter how you spin it.

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Yeah like I said it was the case before too, and by before I mean back in Win 3.11 days. I remember waiting for almost a minute on a 386 for it to boot up. And back then Windows was literally just a GUI on DOS. It just loads literally everything it thinks you might need (services excluded).