Re: How To Speed Startup Of Microsoft Office? Have It Running All The Time!

On Sat, 3/29/2025 9:14 AM, vallor wrote:

On Sat, 29 Mar 2025 01:08:30 -0400, Paul <nospam@needed.invalid> wrote in
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On Fri, 3/28/2025 5:25 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

Linux can use memory for filesystem cache that can be quickly dumped
and reallocated for regular application use. This is why the memory
display distinguishes between “free” memory and “available” memory --
the latter includes both free memory and cache space.
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Windows isn’t so good at this, let’s face it.
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I don't know if the message is getting through yet,
but Windows has every feature Linux has.

 
I agree with almost everything you say, Paul, but if what
you say in this last sentence is the case, one wonders why
Linux is available as a subsystem under Windows?
 
For that matter, why does Azure run on Azure Linux, a Microsoft-designed
Linux distribution, rather than Windows Server?
 
But!  I think Lawrence is getting ahead of himself -- for general
user applications, Windows is fine with regard to
performance -- it's the other matters that give one
pause for thought, such as (for example) privacy and ads.

I don't know why there is a Bash Shell.

I think the project was done "because they could".
It might have been as simple as that. It's a capability.
It's not monetized. The "average" Windows user is unlikely
to have a clue it is present, and even if they were
remotely interested, they'd never get it installed.
It is not a fully automated project.

I think it's part of a cover story, to hide the *real* plan.
After all, they hired Poettering. And the velocity of deployment
of WSLg, hints that they've also got some other damn good people.
Not the normal Wallys. *Why* do they have people like that ?

Now that I understand their pattern of "indirection" (a technique
I've seen back when I used to play sports), it's easier to guess
that something you're seeing, is a clever cover story. Like
the "FrameServe" project, that doesn't serve frames :-/ Funny,
guys.

   Paul