You can get fast boot times on linux if you care to tweak things.

> Still to this day I think this is how it should be. You want to switch ON your computer and it should be ready for use.

Don't we already kind of have this? It's setup to be dynamic, and we'd ended up calling it "sleep", but it basically does what you're talking about, but dynamically and optionally, basically chucking the entire state into RAM (or disk for "hibernate") then resumes from that when you wanna continue.

Personally I've avoided it for the longest of times because something always breaks or ends up wonky when you resumes, at least on my desktop. The PS5 and the Steam Deck handles this seemingly even with games running, so seems possible, and I know others who are using it, maybe Linux desktop is just lagging behind there a bit so I continue to properly shut down my computer every night.

Unfortunately, the MeGoo OS was discontinued shortly after. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MeeGo

You may not care about the newer features , or think you don’t at the least, but there’s a limit to how fast they can be loaded.

More than just loaded, they’re also often checked for integrity as well.

Right? Any process that eventually completes successfully takes seconds, even if it's a million of them.