Booting Windows from an SD CARD???

[@DeSinc]

each time it hitched in the game wasn't an anomaly, you can see every time it froze it was loading a new asset or a new file of some kind for the scripted sequence where you look at your hands or when you initiate a glory kill for the first time, each time it runs the first time it has to read the relevant files to ram

[@Profile__Name]

Hey I know you, you do those Halo Videos where you fly up in the air. Alright im unsure what part of the Halo campaign its from, I think your using hacks. /s

[@512TheWolf512]

DeSinc oh hi, Half-Life expert

[@alexbb258]

Pin dis shit

[@myrlhex7622]

Perhaps it's the USB that FUBARs the latency?

[@biggiy]

you smaat

[@badwolf97]

LTT in a nutshell: Can you do it? Yes. Should you do it? No.

[@murphytheturtle8968]

this is something that can be done on ANY OS basically, this is some pathetic shit.

[@the4thsteve27]

@@murphytheturtle8968 some OSes are built for it. google puppy linux

[@0Raik]

Linus Drop Tips _"Do as I say, not as I do."_

[@jasonlisonbee]

I'm about to do it with a different OS. My card will be A2 rated. An A1 probably would have been better than what he used if they existed.

[@Vuvus210596]

He does this for us, so we don't have to.

[@alvaro_born]

boots still faster than my school's laptops

[@kristiantodorov5080]

I am going on Programming and one of the kids has a windows 8.1 laptop which i assume has an hdd and he restarted it and took the laptop to boot like 1-2 minutes

[@ForOdinAndAsgard]

My Amiga boots faster than your school laptop.

[@kira1k966]

Lol just got a new laptop really nice and boots fairly nice considering it has a hard drive

[@kristiantodorov5080]

@@ForOdinAndAsgard Well...It's not from our school. It was his laptop

[@VaskoG384]

They gave us Chromebooks with a Celeron N3350 and 4 gb RAM. It has one job and struggles to do it.

[@katomiccomics202]

_“Dinosaur Operating Systems like Windows 7”_ I can’t be that old.

[@9852323]

Most people prefer Windows 7 that I know. It is much better than windows 10 in every way possible. He’s just one of those pretentious KZbin tech snobs

[@9852323]

Iron Squid Yeah there is but it’s much easier to just go with 7 Or 8.1 with classic shell. if you can. Not only that but windows 10 runs horrible on an HDD. It literally rapes hard drives...

[@h1ghe3a44]

@@ironsquid9724 Can you get a link for it please?

[@h1ghe3a44]

@@ironsquid9724 The powershell scripts you mentioned earlier

[@scaramouche768]

@@ironsquid9724 could you try please I couldn't find it. Really sorry to bother you.

[@cup_check_official]

Whoever stole my copy of Microsoft Office, I will hunt you down You have my Word

[@wesleycurrier13]

GG

[@conifirouss]

stop.

[@solvemyproblem6636]

The Outlook will change, do not worry!

[@Toby_Bikes]

nice one

[@zuroxtv2199]

Oh no! Now you cannot Excel at work

[@genericusernamelast8914]

"I haven't played a lot of doom..." steam: You played 116 hours

[@steelsandoe]

And 115 hours is from benchmarking/playtesting

[@BelaPuma]

@@Smol-bug dude how do you manage to average 3h a day of mariokart

[@BelaPuma]

@@Smol-bug I mean I'd understand if it was dirt series or similar but damn

[@SeaJay_Oceans]

Well, once you've passed 2,000 hours on a game, you might consider adding it to your 'Favorites'... ;-)

[@luciussavagemusic]

Fair, I have about 2000+ hours of CS:GO, I don't consider that alot

[@rileycunningham5553]

“Linus” Starts talking about how some of his copies of windows aren’t legit “Windows” Activate Windows Watermark appears

[@arsonist___]

I THOUGHT MY ILLEGALLY-ACTIVATED WINDOWS 10 WAS DEACTIVATED

[@wdue]

Jokes on him. i use unbuntu

[@wdue]

@@Revzk oh shit

[@mitsubishigaming4322]

i thought my computer isnt activated.

[@solidsnaker1992]

@Somthing or Not Jokes on you, I use my pinky

[@SolidSonicTH]

Curious how my *APPLE TV* is telling me to activate Windows...

[@spyne.98]

SolidSonicTH I saw this and i use a windows phone… Jk

[@oceanix91]

Im on android

[@thezeldaboi21]

Dang I didn’t know my iPad ran windows

[@rxgtv]

@• Joe Panda • Same!

[@drbali]

Ok, I am now running Linux. Why am I still getting it?

[@Gendulfdegrei]

nice lil "activate windows" you put in there, you got me.

[@thisconnectd]

I'm running linux and was confused

[@somebodyknown]

i was watching it on my iphone...

[@IamTheHolypumpkin]

Watching it on the TV.

[@IamTheHolypumpkin]

Samuel Tourinho I have a legal license which is so broken that I use the same license on the 6 devices without MS complaining.

[@zinput]

P45C4L S. How did you get them?

[@TheSheepster]

Who else wanted him to unplug the USB SD while Windows was running?

[@luminumlx2604]

it would bsod

[@luminumlx2604]

@@Adkatka last year i raged at fortnite and i unplugged my sata cable, after 2 seconds my pc bsod

[@xiboon]

It would just lag, you could move your cursor but only cursor is not frozen

[@Bekon241]

Nothing hapend probably coz first all info go to ram and alweys you have little time before system die... If meny GB ram meny data is stored in ram memory...

[@rat4289]

@@Bekon241 damn your english is trash xD

[@lucasmachado6202]

Bro! Don't put that "Activate Windows" message on the video. It looks so messy overlapping with the one that was *already* there.

[@kantdiego]

Lucas Machado XDD

[@jujuyee2534]

Why is the FBI here?

[@ZervaceTV]

lmaoo same

[@johnymer]

Those windows are for one use he will never use them again. WHY HE MUST ACTIVATE THEM

[@dubl33_27]

LMAO

[@AshiqurRahman]

I am running UBUNTU on a SDHC 16GB memory card smoother than Windows 10 on my hard drive...

[@kooldogkid149]

Try getting a new hard drive.

[@josippavelic6390]

How did u boot it?

[@aritrakundu2756]

@@josippavelic6390 live boot

[@josippavelic6390]

@@aritrakundu2756 which tool?

[@aritrakundu2756]

@@josippavelic6390 grab a pendrive of at least 4GB. Download the iso for the linux distro you want to use. Download etcher or rufus. Burn that image to the pendrive. Boot into BIOS/UEFI. Select the pendrive as your boot drive and you're set.

[@RaggedLands]

5:55 "I think we're gonna have to get some lunch or something" - Clock shows 5:10pm 6:00 "So that did take a fair bit longer than usual" - Clock shows 4:35 am

[@realcartoongirl]

may be the time is un correct

[@encryptname7995]

Changed the timezone

[@TheXGamerNeedsRice]

@Torfaro that wasn't a woooosh, and r/itswooooshwith4os

[@circuit10]

@Stabsoberbootsmann Franz What?!

[@defaultdan7923]

N omg you are so funny and random 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 racism funny!!!!1! /s

[@EdoG4m3r]

9000ms avg response time feels like: PC: I need edge installation files SD: ... SD: ... PC: Anyone there? SD: ... PC: HELLO?! SD: Yeah give me time bro here it is

[@NativeVsColonial]

SD to PC fuck off mate can't you see I have only 8 tiny pins to work with 🥺 PC: I didn't know that I'm sorry 😿 SD: 😭

[@mahboobnasimi3280]

Hahaha, you got the world !

[@AidenSalts]

thats tough

[@9852323]

Browser downloader installation files

[@XiaoHan-Official]

​​@@NativeVsColonialSATA has only 7 pins to exchange data.I can't realize why SD is so slow...

[@RedEyedJedi]

Sometimes I have these crazy ideas, where I think, "I wonder if an SD card could be a viable hard drive solution?" so I come to KZbin and check Linus Tech Tips. Only to discover, Linus has already had the same idea and made a video about it. You really are a massive time saver Linus. I salute you, sir.

[@charginginprogresss]

An SD is just an SSD with a single S

[@truefoxtrot2884]

@@charginginprogresss ah yes, state drive

[@dabois012]

⁠@@truefoxtrot2884solid drive still makes sense And state drive is just funny idk why

[@likeavampirebite]

* watching video on iPhone * * Activate Windows message appears * well I guess I gotta... wa it -

[@DuckMaster37]

Im on iphone too

[@ozi039]

ipad bruh

[@dr.coomer1664]

I'm on Samsung too

[@AnushManith]

@@ozi039 me too lmao

[@liamonze3710]

windows 7 lol

[@GoldDominik893]

The rotation of the earth really makes my day

[@AxeAR]

Wat

[@stanleybowman-hood6194]

Why why why why

[@mrowlsss]

@@AxeAR r/woooosh

[@TomokoJinx]

Ikr

[@smiley8574]

Me who lives on the north pole: OoO

[@jcjames5229]

"dinosaur operating systems like Windows 7" *sheds a tear*

[@a64738]

I would say Windows 10 is the OS that looks like a dinosaur with the GUI that look like something from the early 1980 when you had only few colors. Also Windows 10 is slow to horribly slow in all tasks compared to Windows 7... Opening a directory with many files can take up to 3 minutes in Windows 10 and 8,1 while same folder opens INSTANTLY in Windows 7... The real dinour is Windows 10 lol

[@whyhe11othere]

@@a64738 ok boomer

[@jackasshomey]

@@whyhe11othere being pissed about windows changing their theme after the same theme being used since Windows NT 4.0 is a common feeling for pretty much anyone who used a windows computer since 1996... honestly the windows theme from that time was fine and it was used all the way up until windows 7 and then they fucked with it in windows 8... fuck windows 8 was soo stupid i wouldn't even give it to my worst enemy's microsoft should have learned from that pile of shit to just go back to the Windows 7 theme but they again change the theme a 2nd time with windows 10... like did you even wonder why they had to start giving it out for free? because nobody fucking wanted it you would literally have to pay windows 7 users money to upgrade to windows 10 and even then its just a shit show you gotta learn an entirely new interface that performs the exact same functions... like who the fuck wants to do that it would be like the automotive industry suddenly getting rid of steering wheels and installing joysticks in vehicles for steering... in the immortal words of Bert Lance "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"

[@whyhe11othere]

@@jackasshomey ok boomer

[@jackasshomey]

@@whyhe11othere im 25 bro lol i don't even qualify for that title but good try

[@preferredimage]

My first HDD was 40MB (not GB, MB!) and was SCSI attached to an Amiga 500. It ran a dialup BBS for over 4 years!

[@iGameOvertv]

I remember these times :) When a rich friend of mine got a 160 MB drive I was so jealous!

[@rpsproject5349]

My first box was not quite so old but the HDD was 1GB and it had EDORAM, bought just before xmas in 1996.

[@preferredimage]

If its ram you are talking about, I have a machine here with 1K, and a 16K rampack!

[@RanaRandom]

:D

[@primthos7413]

CDLLBOSS Lee only one floppy? You kids and your gadgets. I use 20 floppies for Word.

[@SkylexBrooo]

"Dinosaur operating systems like windows 7" *Watching this video from Windows 7*

[@Lue_Duck]

Skylex end of support in 2 years. Good luck!

[@SkylexBrooo]

Two years is a long time and plus when support ends i'll just install Windows 10 easy peasy. But until then i'm good.

[@Waffle4569]

*gasp* Filthy peasant

[@seshpenguin]

Ayy nice choice. Start with a simple distro like Ubuntu or Fedora

[@meltedcheese1908]

When he said that I felt very old.

[@Kaidatsu]

Linus: Microsoft doesn't allow you to make an ISO from the media tool Me: Made a ISO from tool yesterday for an old laptop.

[@lwyzfz]

Its still alive?. I've a X1 Carbon (1st gen) and i can't find the compatible disk. Anyway, while I find and get the compatible disk I would like to use the laptop. But I fear the SD will be damaged. Thanks.

[@pointed.sphere]

@@lwyzfz Lenovo provides a media creation tool for most of their laptops.

[@Attacknun]

@HoloKola Shit I dunno man. I downloaded an w10 ISO from microsoft, burned it onto a flash drive and it installed onto my PC just fine 2 days ago. Pretty sure I used rufus to do it to.

[@brunoancona9110]

@@Attacknun He meant you cant do a Windows-To-Go installation with this ISOs, which means installing Windows on the USB and booting from there (without any HDD or SSD). Ofc you can make a Windows 10 USB to install it on a computer.

[@Attacknun]

@@brunoancona9110 Whatever, not like I paid for it

[@xanthousKnight]

😂 the Activate your Windows watermark on the video though.

[@slendii366]

Why pay for it? Microsoft has enough money

[@MVGEN36]

As a kid i felt so powerful with an sd card And now i feel even more powerful

[@sagemorgillo5313]

Gaming using only ram

[@DylanNyah]

I have 22gb of it lol

[@nikitabelov1478]

If DDR4 it is totaly possible. Cause 3200mhz ain't so slow. In fact, consoles have no VRAM.

[@mcdonaldsafrica8593]

The absolute mad man

[@pcarrierorange]

Sage Morgillo Did you mean: _Gaming on a laptop_

[@truedarklander]

@@nikitabelov1478 Actually, they have no sRAM. They use shared GDDR5

[@hippopotamus86]

Linus, it's not 99% usage, it is 99% active time. You need to look at the resource monitor to see the proper statistics. The main one is the disk queue. Anything more than 1 tends to mean commands are getting queued. You'd feel a disk queue of 5 or more.

[@TiagoFreire]

What about SD cards with the A2 specification? Sandisk has some cards with this spec which allows for 1000+ IOPS. That should be able to run a OS much more decently. You should do a follow-up with that kind of SD card.

[@bobprivate8575]

It won't make a big difference. A huge factor in any drive (mechanical or SSD) performance is the embedded controller, and the controller in SD cards isn't designed for the sort of access you need in order to efficiently run programs from it. A better/more powerful microcontroller would add to the price, to the point you may as well just get an SSD that's designed for that task. Go compare benchmarks between low-end SSDs and higher-end ones with the same RAM type and you'll see the difference the microcontroller makes.

[@dxnjhull]

4:50 Nice try, I'm watching in phone

[@puns0]

Yes not everyone has a pc or a pc with windows and I am one of them and it hurts😭😭

[@bombaxdier1800]

@@puns0 there is a windows 10 free version which has this watermark, also if ur not gonna game on a PC an iPad will do better in regular usage while being cheaper

[@bombaxdier1800]

@@puns0 also if u use Linux good cuz windows is the worst os in the entire world

[@killerqueen4681]

@@bombaxdier1800 ahhh you are one of those people lmao

[@bombaxdier1800]

@@killerqueen4681 LOL

[@MuitoDaora]

128gb hdd for the first build? NOOB! My first one was a 10gb hdd. Edit: That's was the first PC that I build myself, not my first one.

[@ainzooalgown7589]

MuitoDaora mine was 128mb

[@jeyanthiprabhu1338]

Big Bick waaaaatt I have more cache

[@savage1267]

MuitoDaora 20 Mega Bytes. Mega bytes.

[@TheShivABC]

Mine was 120mb seagate hdd

[@lnxpro]

My first HDD was 10MB.... Yes. MB (Megabytes). not Gigabytes.

[@MikeTrieu]

Sometimes I feel that all of Linus' experience and know-how trump mine many times over... and then I find out that he's never made a Windows to Go image before. Thanks for the boost to my self-esteem, Linus 😅

[@nopenopenopenope4076]

Mike Trieu yeah, WTG is a tad bit obscure. A tad.

[@MikeTrieu]

Jeremiah Felix Sobrevilla You're telling me you've never once tried to make one? Even just to say that you could as a kind of weird Windows "live distro"?

[@nopenopenopenope4076]

Angelo Stevens this relates how? Also, innocent until proven guilty in a competent court of law.

[@nopenopenopenope4076]

Mike Trieu i have. I'm just saying not everyone can or have made WTG installs.

[@nopenopenopenope4076]

Angelo Stevens nice b8, by the way. Pedophilia sure does relate to making bootable live disks. No, i am not pro pedophilia. I am however, pro rule of law, and any crime accused of a man is to be treated as an accusation, and well, the burden of proof is on the accuser in most courts of law. No, i realize this isn't a court, but really, until he actually goes to trial and in found guilty of the accusation, then this is all a moot point. If you really hate Linus, block his channels on KZbin, and stop rumor mongering. We'll all know soon enough if he actually hurt a kid anyway, no need for you to falsely preempt the news.

[@chyr]

when i first saw you 3 years ago, i thought it said Linux Tech Tips... and i have been watching ever since

[@Krishna-pt3yu]

Yeah me too

[@sajidali-qy3xk]

Same

[@griefy4555]

Ok time to replace my HDD's with SD Cards.

[@RusRus72]

Unironically it would make it slower

[@JustinY.]

You absolute madlad, you actually got it to play Doom

[@kevinneu]

Justin Y. r/madlads

[@dimitrioszervas9688]

Justin Y. Man you are literally EVERYWHERE

[@JoujiWashington]

Like botter

[@Apolepth]

YOU'RE ALSO HERE?!

[@_yuri]

d zrv botnet advanced AI

[@kauviz]

The way you held that windows disc made me uncomfortable.

[@stefane.r.r.6032]

Kauviz yeah me too.. seems he is careless

[@testuser12]

Stefan E. Rez. Rah. When there's a wobble round of computer components lying around in your room, you probably won't care too.

[@denisahac4574]

That's why they broke their iMac Pro display.

[@MR_GPU]

Seems? How long have you been watching Linus Tech Tips?

[@LordBufu]

Who gives a flying fuck about install disks, if you have a microsoft account for say your company you can just download the full iso instead of the Evaluation one he was trying to use at first. No need for install disks in 2018, get out of that bubble and play Frisbee with your old stack, much more fun then worrying about it getting damaged :P

[@2DReanimation]

11:40: Not "anomalies", just loading a resource for the first time. So if a game isn't loading a lot of stuff dynamically, it would be as smooth as on an SSD. But most games load stuff dynamically, especially games that uses very detailed environments. I'd also like to add that most Linux file-systems are faster than anything from Windows, and XFS can actually increase i/o to a great extent compared to other file-systems, especially for spinning drives. But I think Linux would handle everything from an SD card a lot better. Especially as it's not updating secretly in the background.

[@ryan1696]

Anomaly, he says. I call it "Loading game resources in half a megabyte per second.

[@TwilightWolf032]

Oh, look, Windows 10 running the disk at 100%. Seems normal!

[@astupidlylongnamethatstoolong]

TwilightWolf032 Had to tweak so much stuff to stop that lul.

[@ghostmiyu]

How tf do I fix it

[@spencer3580]

get windows 10 pro, disable all the spyware and updates containing more spyware

[@StevenJPiper]

Mine doesn't do that, you must be using it wrong...

[@vinb4495]

Disable prefetch

[@CKTDanny]

Doom seems to run well on everything

[@CT7ALW]

Well, given that load screens exist to load data into RAM... The drive doesn't really matter after load...

[@CKTDanny]

Rui Oliveira The load screens were impressively short.

[@thebonapettit9828]

stick a titan gpu and that much ram into a toaster and it WILL run DOOM in ultra

[@thebonapettit9828]

and a 10 core or whatever he had

[@Hannibal1946]

Rui Oliveira I was surprised Linus didn't catch on to this. His "anomalies" were the game requesting files that weren't already in the RAM.

[@o0Avalon0o]

Cool, a sponsor I can use!

[@GoldenretriverYT]

11:23 I haven't played a lot of doom. 11:08 Playtime: 118h

[@ForOdinAndAsgard]

Not even a full week so yes not a lot.

[@Chris-w8r7y]

@@ForOdinAndAsgard still a lot

[@jthoward]

LTT account, not necessarily Linus playing

[@droson8712]

that's nothing

[@motap4935]

@Soviet Union Boi it wasnt even funny

[@ehcoroche8689]

Fun fact, the issue with the inability to create a Windows To Go installation with Rufus from the ISO downloaded from the media creation tool was a problem with Rufus, which was subsequently fixed. Also performance should now be a lot better even using an SD card given the much better optimizations with windows RAM caching and To Go compatibility. I have a mini-ryzen build that I've been running exclusively off a 32gb usb 3.0 cheapo drive from amazon and it works better than my 7200rpm WD black 1tb drive so that's something These videos are enjoyable, but just like the multi-cpu builds, the implementation is never quite optimal, and combing through the comments you can learn a lot about how others have worked with the windows scheduler to get pretty good performance off of many-core builds. And that was before the windows scheduler was given appropriate optimizations to prioritize higher speed cores for demanding content like with android and the Big/small core complexes. It'd be nice to see an updated video on the opteron/xeon many-core builds with all of these things taken into account, and even some more Windows To Go content, as the niche is what I believe LTT excels at covering, even if not to the best of its interest.

[@mukiex4413]

Good sir and/or madam, 4 years later, Rufus made my Steam Deck Windows 10 drive on a MicroSD card and performance is GREAT. =D

[@lfox02]

>complains about the drive speed >installs 60GB game (or so) Okay then.

[@ViperoK]

60th like on the comment about a 60GB game

[@astupidlylongnamethatstoolong]

Its LTT, such are expected things.

[@bryndal36]

And this is why I'll keep my dvd burner just a bit longer.

[@cHefvEto1]

Bryndal Dwyre I just ordered one online just to keep in case.

[@danvindsouza2725]

4:50 *the cough! "Legit" & The Activate Windows At The Bottom-Left was hilarious* 😂

[@UnrealNumina]

9:16 incredible ventriloquism skills

[@DRocker80]

Editing is a thankless job. lol

[@xed_i2070]

Nice catch

[@wwsvs]

The 100% disk activity was more than likely two things. Windows updates and virus scans from Windows Defender. I've seen both of these things on my SSD and mechanical drives.

Heh, one more reason to use Linux.

[@shizumi9877]

Not entirely sure what causes it, but I went through well over a hundred Win10 PCs and I can confirm the issue isn't necessarily related to the SD card. It happens more often with HDDs than SSDs, so the drive's R/W speed probably does influence it somewhat, but it's definitely a Win10 issue primarily.

[@gaelfortier2668]

don't forget "CompatTelRunner.exe" or Microsoft Compatibility Telemetry... that also slows down a pc and send random info from your computer to microsoft

[@khl2445]

now we need sony to make one for this type of uses

[@SexierMink1699]

Sony is so consumer unfriendly that they would never even think about making your experience smoother, easier or cheaper

[@zsoltpeterdaniel8413]

Sony is selling ssds for that type of use

[@FloppydriveMaestro]

But why? Why does anyone want Windows on an SD card.

[@frosty295]

Why bother? Windows is the cause of it's own bad performance while being bloated, meanwhile Linux runs fine on a slower class 10 SD just fine while being lighter and faster also while this is interesting or cool harddrives are still superior in speed and performance so it's probably better to just use that.

[@TehObLiVioUs]

but LINUX doesn't natively support every single windows game.

[@jimbob234567890]

this brought me back to my high school days running Windows XP of an SD card because my HDD broke and i didn't have any money to buy a new one.

[@unicornparade6159]

I've been booting Linux from a USB flash drive for quite some time now, a regular flash drive not an SSD, and it works just fine.

[@CheapSushi]

Some versions of Linux I believe, at least some some Hypervisors put everything in RAM, so the experience is much better.

[@unicornparade6159]

I'm running standard Ubuntu installed in such a way that it thinks the USB drive is just a regular drive, with memory managed in the standard default way.

[@BenEsherick]

Druaga1 Tech Tips

[@hchmmusic]

LinusWeedTips

[@Sandium]

Demore Gains bad, bad.

[@MrMycards123]

Linus just the tip ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[@whette_fahrtz]

Hey smokers

[@Brian-ft4dh]

Why do so many people fail to realise that the activate windows watermark was a joke? They edited it in jeez

[@danstrikker6465]

Linus: "don't use an SD card to boot windows" Raspberry Pi: "I'm about to ruin this man's entire career"

[@murphytheturtle8968]

linus hasn't been a geek since the whole room cooling project. He was a hardware nerd, and now he's just another dude posting clickbait.

[@Adamlol642]

@@murphytheturtle8968 yeah

[@kredibled]

It's amazing that your first self built computer was 128 gigs. I believe my first self built computer was less than 100mb. I remember 16mb of ram being mind blowing. Love the videos and nostalgia binges!

[@surferdude4487]

My first machine had a 40 Mb Hard drive and 2 MB of Ram running on an Intel 80386 SX. I thingk the OS was DOS 6.2. WordPerfect was the word processor of choice.

[@Tlesk]

my first was 10mb hdd with Stacker software installed. this was for Dune 2 (10mb approx) to fit in. RAM was 1mb. and it was 2mhz 286 PC

[@BahmanAGeophysics]

My first computer had 64kb RAM and no storage. We were using cassette players at that time to load the programs written in Basic!

[@mechanicalmonk2020]

6gb for first one I built, 64kb for the first one I used 😅

[@seasong7655]

but can it run paint

[@11m.photography]

Starting to ask the real question now xD

[@greenbin3028]

480p 10fps

[@fr3fou]

cute akko avatar uwu

[@Danxisk]

Nope

[@OmerFlame]

Probably.

[@Josstuka]

Still better than the HDD that came in my Alienware Alpha

[@shaansingh6048]

the only way that could happen is if you have WAY too many background apps running. I have an HDD and it is having less than 50ms response times right now (yes, its my system disk and I'm on windows 10)

[@DJFrizzie]

I laughed so hard lol, was very entertaining as I had the same idea but you have done all the hassle for me and Imma let that go but check this out. Using microsd as an external extra storage for your macbooks *head blown right * 😂 Thanks again for the experience

[@5argetech56]

That SD card would be burned to a crisp very quickly. Especially with all the writes and rewrites Windows 10 does. Don't even try to do a major update. That might take you a week :-).

[@cptcrogge]

It depends what kind of stick / card you are using, there exist for example since years Sandisk Extreme USB 3.0 sticks which can handle quite a few TBW. They use a real SSD controller though and output SMART values. I was personally running Windows XP on a Transcend SLC! CF card (4GB) for a long time, it kept swapping a lot of data and the CF card is even nowadays still alive and in perfect shape. It emulated a proper IDE drive in the thin client hence XP could be installed without any trouble.

[@5argetech56]

cptcrogge cool.

[@NazmusLabs]

It DID do a major update. Did you not see "Getting devices ready" screen. And notice that the initial disc install had (c) 2015, didn't have the action center right of the clock, didn't have the people icon on the task bar, and had light context menu. After upgrade, he got at least the fall creators update, with all the aforementioned features.

[@104d_3rr0r_vince]

Registry can kill it in half a week.

[@thanthanasiszamp4707]

5argeTech /\ He could install a RakDISK driver in it for better performance to avoud flash wearing.

[@buckprivate8177]

"This might be slower than a mechanical hard drive." Mate, them's fightin words.

[@stepsistertrap5992]

I love that he calls what I consider pretty cool specs utter garbage

[@BlackWolfy90]

13:25 I know that feel Linus, yesterday I was shopping for a mini usb cable for some shitty iPhone dock I have at work, and the girl working at the store was like "Ummm there's no such thing as a mini usb, you have a micro usb, lightning and type c" I just mumbled something like "It's a older standard" and left the store because I could literally feel my hair turning gray, damn I feel it only was 2-3 years ago I used a mini usb cable for my HTC Wizard

[@simontay4851]

I have a drawer of spare miniUSB cables. Do you want one.

[@MohakB]

Don't ps3 controller cables use those I remember them

[@BlackWolfy90]

Nah man, already bought one, but thanks anyway

[@billnye9611]

You’re not old they’re just dumb I’m a young person and I’ve used miniusb a lot

[@BlackWolfy90]

Yeah, but when talking about using them on phones, they are pretty ancient haha

[@techiewiskers]

I still have dsl and I'm using a cheap mechanical drive in my DIY PC

[@AxeAR]

Poor Google assistant

[@jc.1191]

Lame

[@RaimarLunardi]

When I used WIn 98, I had an HDD that had 2.5MB/s of transfer rate... good times taking 40min installing windows

[@chriscasseday7707]

I'd like to see Linus react to setting up and using my 80486. I would even be kind and let him install Wing Commander 2. With speech packs and Secret Missions. ;) Dx2-66 8mb ram 1mb EISA/VLB graphics card. 450mb Hd (double spaced) :) Best computer I ever gamed on.

[@RaimarLunardi]

40 min just for windows, no other programs though! I could take all afternoon to set everything up!

[@RaimarLunardi]

ah the old times... (not good times, just old AF, lol!!! We took too long to have multi core CPU)

[@B0R]

Some tech person: do you use a laptop or desktop? Me: I use a sd card

[@marianmariuszb]

Floortop.

[@Ordlnary_Gamer]

Willral do you use laptop desktop or se card i use micro se card

[@tamertamertamer4874]

This sounds like a bad idea (even in 2019) The lag from doom was when loading new assets into ram I think

[@creationsmaxo]

Yeah. Doom is a really well optimized game when it comes to its assets/memory management. If you got the right amount of RAM and VRAM to store all the level's rendering and sound data, the only data that gets streamed from the storage is some of the audio files (musics for example) and Shader's compilation and recompilation (which is when the texture are then stored in the RAM or VRAM based on what's done with them.) Any games that put heavy emphasis toward the storage content would clearly suffer from this setup. I would be curious about how a game like No Man Sky would fare in this setup.

[@MrHammerTM]

It should only lag when it's loading some type of an asset into RAM (like your death animation, headshot animation/icon) stuff that isn't always in use

[@aurimasknieza7320]

7:49 Linus created new time measurement unit -1 Megasecond :D

[@MalteSittig]

Aurimas Knieža that so too

[@shayan_ecksdee]

Do you even science?

[@FinalSentinel]

Physics!: units.wikia.com/wiki/Megasecond. Turns out it's approximately 11.6 days, so probs not what Linus was looking for.

[@thegenerousdegenerate9395]

Martin Matuszewski LIES! LIES I TELL YOU!!!

[@thewolfin]

He said both.

[@flemtone]

I've had Xubuntu running on a class 10 8gb flash drive with no swap and it ran really well.

[@volodumurkalunyak4651]

Anthony Fleming how much ram it had?

[@StefanGliga48]

IKR! I ran Xubuntu off B tier pendrives and even rooted phones. Works like a charm!

[@5argetech56]

Anthony Fleming Puppy Linux is made for this type of operation. I have puppy arcade installed on a 16 gig flash drive that split into two partitions. Sb1 is where the operating system is, sb2 is simply for storage of games and media and the like. I've been using it for about 2 years now with no degradation. Puppy is good because my computer has 16 gigs of RAM and puppy runs in Ram. It does not wear out the drive with constant writes and rewrites it only saves the file and you can control when saves or it will save your session when you shut down

[@frosty295]

Same and I did it right after I saw this video no problem

[@TheDeadAlewives]

You gotta love how storage media keeps getting smaller but GPU hardware keeps getting bigger.

[@exMuteKid]

*gpu coolers/heatsinks keep getting bigger. The actual gpu chips have stayed the same size but increased greatly in transistor density

[@mikethespike056]

@@exMuteKid coolers -> hardware

[@gpenn7201]

you rode the short bus didnt you?

[@ARandomInternetUser08]

@@exMuteKid that quite literally is hardware.

[@alexkr8173]

Have you heard about Linux live usb ? (Rhetorical question )

[@urgarb9718]

Alex Kr and here’s a rhetorical answer for your rhetorical question, no, I don’t know of such a thing because I’m new to pc building and stuff like that 😃😃😃(ITS A JOKE)

[@Xeno_Bardock]

Linus Tech Tips should make video on Linus using only Linux Manjaro KDE for one month. manjaro.org/ Manjaro KDE is rolling just like Windows 10 but superior than Windows 10 including updates/upgrades.

[@shinjiiiiiiiiii]

windows is a pigfat behemoth though

[@Xeno_Bardock]

Linus, install Manjaro KDE on SD Card and boom you have snappy and fast rolling OS, much better looking than Windows 10 and awesome OOTB customization cuz KDE Plasma Desktop Environment.

[@alexkr8173]

Ironically his name is “Linus”

[@StefanutCoadaDeStrutz]

4:55 that ,, activate windows" thing scare the sh*t out of me. I thought my license has expired.

[@bombaxdier1800]

Me watching on my Android phone: umm did my phone just install windows on itself???

[@user-sl5zk3vc5p]

Good thing i have a GENUINE COPY rather than pirating it

[@globetrotterbengaluru]

Same

[@TeffySam]

I don't understand why Linus is surprised that games run smooth. Obviously a good part of the game is already loaded onto the RAM and hence the decent performance right?

[@patience__8051]

Exact. But this is linus.

[@TeffySam]

Lol true

[@alenasenie6928]

i think the surprise was that it had an unexpected loading time, much faster than he tought, the rest is filler

[@PsychoStreak]

Time was the drive speed was a much bigger factor in game performance. Also, I think he was basing it off of older systems with far, far less RAM. On XP for example it would be paging a lot.

[@nicoacha88]

In 80's we boot DOS from two 5 1/4" drives (need a system and boot diskette to do that), this reminds me of those times ...

[@the-niker]

Linus you can just clone the boot and system partition of any working installed Windows onto the removable drive or sdcard and it will boot fine. Paragon Partition Manager or some such can do it all under 20 minutes.

[@tordenflesk2322]

For someone running a "tech" channel, he's exceedingly incompetent sometimes.

[@JM-in8fq]

nik3r007 Thats a lotof information for me to process...slow down bud

[@jesselioce]

The c partition of that bench is prob too big/full for that SD card with all the games installed for the benchmarks

[@LordBufu]

Id rather use robocopy (included with windows) then free software on the internets, much saver much faster less hassle. But if space is an issue and you want just Windows (like is the case in this video), the only official way to do it (as far as i know anyway) would be the same way PXE boots are prepared (network deployment). And that is lot more effort for just one install, better to do a fresh "to go" install in those cases.

[@stephenbenner4353]

I remember ogling 1gig drives in catalogs when I was a teenager. They were around 4 inches tall by 6 inches wide by eight inches deep. You would have to sacrifice one of your floppy drive slots to fit it in.

[@acdchook]

120GB? That would have been giant! I had an 8GB Quantum Fireball! :D

[@MFunkibut]

You youngsters! You couldn't even BUY a Gig hard drive when I bought my first PC [1989-ish] :)

[@nccrawford]

I was thinking the same thing. Mine had 20Mb, so hearing Linus say that made me realize how young most of these people are...

[@xalatesh1372]

I think you could easily install a Full Linux System and Work with it, just from the SD Card.

[@robertlenk348]

125GB on your first PC? - mine had something like 80 MB and it was huge for its time :-)

[@microbuilder]

lol same, and was thinking the same thing

[@CanuckGod]

Mine had 200 MB, but either way, 125 GB would have blown all our minds at the time, or at least 16 year old me nearly a quarter of a century ago.

[@MichaelEdmond]

Robert Lenk mine had a 25mb HDD and a 5.25 inch floppy drive

[@KhasrouhRecords]

my first pc = 1gb !! it was a lot at the time and 256mb ram !!!!

[@submarine.7seas]

first PC I had 640kb of ram and a 40mb hard drive, first computer had 64kb ram and 2 x 512kb floppy.

[@sierracomix]

"I've never actually gotten that to work before" I have a one-up on 2018 linus

[@systander]

as soon as i saw 100% usage, i knew it was windows update. i god damn hate windows update

[@the4thsteve27]

I turned off WUS. in fact i tried to turn it on the other day and im having trouble getting it to work again now :\

[@a64738]

I hate Windows 8.1 and 10, I always know when there exist a uppdate as then suddenly CPU fan start sounding like F16 with full afterburner at takeoff.... And the CPU usage does not go back from 100 - 200% (turbo boosting ) until the update has been installed, also it has not helped on this to turn of uppdate and checking for uppdates....

[@ForOdinAndAsgard]

@@a64738 I hate everything Window$.

[@bigbulldozer9708]

Shitch to linux

[@MrTimjm009]

yeah , I installed a new usb network adapter . was a bit slow loading and stuff plus speedtests were shit . Then I realised it was downloading and installing updates. Then I rebooted , after that it ran much better problems loading pages plus 5 mb/s before then after , smooth running plus around 70 mb/s .

[@thefowles1]

0:42 you, uh... you okay?

[@flamebeard10339]

Help

[@basherexx1536]

Why fork out 40$ for a 400MBps SSD when you can boot from a 190$ 300MBps SD card ? Nobody Asked Ever 🙄

[@bakk.]

Bash Erexx portability

[@InfernosReaper]

I could see it if you were building some sort of tablet thing or something, that might work, but without the buffer on a controller, it'll be kinda garbage(as seen in this video)

[@DraxTrac]

I could do this for a portable lightweight Linux OS.

[@prismglider5922]

Thinking outside of the normal desktop pc area, custom small machines could use this to great effect.

[@Henk14789]

Well, an m.2 2240 enclosure then?

[@rainnier7514]

4:51 I was watching this on my laptop on fullscreen and double checked if I have really activated my windows

[@cal6813]

same, it confused me for a second lol

[@TiesSepGames]

Try using a network drive as a boot drive!!

[@cooker5000]

ItzzTies that's very lame nearly any school does that

[@android-user]

Marcel Yes It takes up to 20 Minutes

[@cooker5000]

Android User No way in our school we had linux network boot and it was pretty fast

[@dayvie9517]

depends on the implementation :D

[@TiesSepGames]

but those computers also have storage in them, i mean an OS running purely on a network drive. maybe even try to run 2 different pc's from the same network drive, and see if that would work. EDIT: with the 1(0?) Gbit internet at LMG there would be almost no latency, and the issue Andoid User stated would be solved.

[@buddyboo3972]

Now boot Windows off RAM.

[@konuralpilim213]

Buddy Boo you mean sleep mode?

[@MonoManaR]

Now boot it off vram

[@nolifeorname5731]

"boot" "off ram" am i the only one who feels like this doesn't make sense? Ram doesn't have persistence on data, so you can't power on a machine and pull data off of the ram.... You could load an entire OS into ram (windows would require at least 20 gigs + AFAIK) and then still it wouldn't have booted from ram, just be running solely on ram

[@hchmmusic]

Ever heard of ramdisk..?

[@hitsubitsa5039]

It is actually technically possible to do so and people have done them before, but you'd have to reinstall windows every time you shut the computer down since RAM is volatile.

[@dadquestionmark]

Activate Windows Go to Settings to activate Windows.

[@nathanhamman418]

Was hoping that i wasn't the only one that saw that, thought it was my computer but opened it on my phone to see

[@forzaguy1252]

Actually me_irl

[@xero003]

i fell for it because it had this problem yesterday -.-

[@kbhasi]

(1:52) "This is the Sony UHS-2 compatible high-speed" That has to be one of my favourite Linus Tech Tips moments thus far!

[@varungandhi8796]

*Turns out that help call was an actual sos but everyone took it as a joke*

[@VQ_Rides]

I did that on 32gb micro sd card class 10 for my kids laptops and they used them for 3 months before I got the actual ssd for the laptop. They actually played Roblox and Mine Craft lol. A little slow yes but doable.

[@aure_eti]

RisingTech it's not big games lol

[@zer0b0t]

For me installing W10 on a HDD takes like two days because it needs tons of updates

[@askme8592]

Lol. I'm still using the same iso for a year or so and installs take about 20 minutes. Sounds more like a shit computer rather than a Windows problem.

[@0M9H4X_Neckbeard]

It's still advisable to always install from the latest ISO instead of using a super old one and having it update, nobody should do that. It's cleaner and faster, plus there are SOME (very few, but still) features that are actually only enabled if you fresh install a newer version of Windows 10 but that are DISABLED by default when you do an upgrade (for example, Upgraded installs will still have SMB1 enabled while fresh installs disallow it by default and fresh installs will also come with a new and prettier theme for the command prompt while upgrades keep the old theme)

[@rayzorum2295]

the reason why DOOM performed good is while in the loading screens, the SD card was copying files to the RAM and the game would lag when loading new chunks

[@SyntheticFrost]

As someone who has a very modern rig with an SSD, and an older rig with a WD "Green" 5400rpm HDD, this is what I hate about Windows 7, 8 and 10. It's not "entirely" the drive's fault. Yes, Windows runs like crap on slower drives, but I've installed other OS's like Linux and macOS on the same drive, and they didn't perform anywhere NEAR as badly. As you clearly just saw, Windows tries to do a million little reads and writes at the same time as soon as it boots up, and taxes the drive without actually getting hardly any real apparent usage on the Task Manager. The other OS's don't "flood" the drive with a million tasks at once on boot. Modern Windows in general just expects an SSD with insane random read/write performance. And it makes older or slower drives look much worse than they actually are.

[@PiddeBas]

So much this

[@EricICX]

Welcome to the wonderful world of A C64's Loading Times Without A Fast Loader

[@min_nari]

Hey smokers Druaga1 here. Today we're gonna try to boot Windows 10 from an SD card.

[@Lue_Duck]

zacao where's the ram gone?!

[@whatiskensworth]

on an Apple II

[@ritamch7518]

Props to the editor for putting in the "Activate Windows" watermark at 4:51

[@dhoome1234ify]

Well, I'm watching on a phone.

[@st8280]

Up to 9 second response time lol "It's measuring in bytes per second"💀

[@randomaccount8009]

Good. Bits per second are an abomination.

[@ryzech4168]

@@randomaccount8009 bits are different than bytes, bits refer to network speeds (megabit gigabit terrabit) and bytes are storage

[@nickv.4752]

@@ryzech4168 No. A byte is 8 bits.

[@cferrerascarlos]

In my experience I have better performance booting Windows from a DNA sequence.

[@Manny911GT]

Ferrallat that's pretty good considering the size of that DNA sequence compared to that SD card

[@dolebiscuit]

That could be a LTT video 50 years from now.

[@xmlthegreat]

Ferrallat underappreciated humor.

[@boilingdark]

now unplug the drive while you're doing something on the computer and watch it flip shit.

[@goblinslayer5404]

boilingdark ive actually done that by mistake with an hdd a long time ago, i think most of the stuff became corrupted and the drive became unbootable. i actually had to salvage my data using a linux usb boot drive....

[@kjjustinXD]

Windows 10 just gives you a warning and then crashes.

[@alenasenie6928]

linux is the best for hdd related stuff, yesterday i took an hdd that windows didnt even say it was conected and in linux i format it so it became usefull again.

[@youtubasoarus]

Wouldn't that be the same sort of scenario as a power out? (ie. a hard power off?) Windows recovers from that all the time, it asks you if you want to perform a scan and fix. Not a problem.

[@boilingdark]

youtubasoarus now that i actually think about it that is probably what would happen, just some corrupted data and a shut down like a power outage.

[@parasahlawat27]

There’s a active windows popup. I didn’t realise that I was watching it on my phone.

[@TheIllusiveWorks]

Linus did you try reducing the page file to zero, I would imagine the PC would be forced to load the page file to ram, of course with some buggy side effects...and new found speed

[@KynceShadowsong]

9:43 i still have dsl, heckin fight me

[@android-user]

Kynce Shadowsong :( How fast is your Internet?

[@breckr1121]

Kynce Shadowsong weeb out

[@BlackWolfy90]

Same here, and I don't expect any time soon to get anything better, since I live in a slav country in a suburban area, but it's actually not that bad since it's vdsl 50Mbit

[@InfernosReaper]

Some poor bastards are still on dialup(thankfully not me). DSL is at least better than that or satellite for that matter.

[@s8wc3]

i have dsl 15/1 and its good enough for 1-2 people but if there's a bunch of people online then it gets a bit slow

[@Bad888Max]

116 hours on Doom - probably only benchmarks? :D

[@jeremiaslopez4082]

Bad Max yeah, poor game

[@batt3ryac1d]

Fantastic game. I played it to unlock the hardest mode then replayed it.

[@definitelythatguyred]

bratuha_alex we like to play at harder difficulty after beating the game

[@MuhammadIlhamuodd254512]

And crysis

[@squaller9254]

my friend has 1200 hours on csgo lmao

[@SwirlingDragonMist]

Could be an option for mac users to have a convenient windows boot for gaming. There’s a product called the TarDisk which was designed to flushmount fit into a macbook pro’s sd card slot. Although modern macs no longer have SD slots.

[@Intelwinsbigly]

Modern macs are e-waste.