Hello everyone,
If my current model is a toshiba with an ssd and 8gb ram, and I upgrade to an hp with i5 and 16gb ram + ssd will I see any change in boot time?
My current toshiba laptop boots in around 20 seconds and it sometimes has performance issuses when doing alot of things at once and its from 2015.
Indeed, is it worth having 16gb ram?
I don't think you would see a difference in boot time by upgrading from 8 to 16 GB in this case.
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So to get better boot time what specs should my new laptop have? What do you recommend?
Its sounds a bit weird that upgrading to a 16gb model wont make a difference, talking into account that im willing to buy a 2021 model
The difference may be 2 seconds tops if you you upgrade from 8 to 16. The boot-time is more CPU and harddrive. And ofcasaue which services that starts. You could try disbale snapd it takes a lot of boot time.
Im willing to have a ssd of 512gb
Also specs say cpu is 12th gen i5 with 10 cores 12M Cache, up to 4.40 GHz
So will it satisfy fast boot up?
It should. Now I don't know the specs of your system.
Try run;
systemd-analyze blame
to see if there's a bottleneck.
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Ok thanks for your help, I appreciate it
Bearing in mind Zorin is based on an old Kernal it may not boot or run as well with a 12th gen i5.
More RAM allows you to run more programs at once, but it won't make the computer any faster. Of course, there are other factors like the type of memory stick, clock speed, etc. that can have an impact as well.
That said, Zorin OS in particular does take a little longer to boot up compared to other distributions that I've tried. I'm not sure why that is, but all in all this isn't entirely unusual.
I seem to remember that having Snap packages enabled might impact the boot time but I'm not sure if this is still a problem. Not that you're going to be able to cut down a lot anyway, maybe a couple of seconds. So, if you are not using any you could uninstall snaps altogether.
Boot is the full initialization of all services on a machine.
Everything, from cold start.
For this reason, we must be selective about our expectations.
A twenty second boot is fine. If you saw 40 seconds or a minute for boot, we might look to see if error loops were delaying boot... But twenty seconds? Get a cup of coffee.
Well, is there a way to update the kernel? Is it safe and is it easy to do so?
Yep.
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Thank you, I was wondering, what kernel do you mostly recommend? For example what is the difference between mainline and other ones?
Kernels may be patched in different ways by different parties. For example, Liquorix is patched with an emphasis toward gaming and gamers.
I recommend Mainline for stability and security.
But remember the easy and safe part: You can install other kernels and test them and then revert to the prior kernel if they do not work out or are buggy.
I would suggest adhering to just below the latest. For example - the 6.12 kernel.
The 6.14 is later, but that means it is fresher - less time for bugs to be reported and fixed.
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