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>>LorenD+(OP)
What are boot times like?

I see a lot of text-editing environments geared towards "distraction-free, focused editing" but not a lot of innovation on an OS focused on the same experience. I would like to see such a "writing OS" that boots to a text editor in less than a second. Maybe this OS is a candidate?

>>velcro+Lc
It was said to boot in 5s twenty years ago...

The hardware compatibility list shows a promising number of machines ( http://www.menuetos.net/hwc.txt ). If you have a spare one, you could try and report. There is a chance that you will achieve a very fast boot time.

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AROS (Amiga) could reboot in ~7s, ~15yrs ago. And you can do more than you can with MenuetOS. Again, today you will probably break that record.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yNIuNnBrWg

Edit:

You can see here a recent AROS booting in 3s (it is not clear if it is bare metal though):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s_TfmF-_iE

>>mdp202+Je
Last time I ran it, Lakka (a Linux disto for Retroach emulation appliances) booted in 5s or less on an RPi2, to a usable graphical menu, complete with particle effects or whatever if you have that stuff enabled.

>>hotnfr+Er
on a 1.44MB floppy?