It refers to a button featured on some laptops in the late 2000s, that started up an alternative, lighter OS installed by the manufacturer, to avoid the loading time of Windows Vista on magnetic hard drives.
Cathode Ray Dude has a series about these OSes called Quick Start.
The previous 14 minutes is him showing how this Vaio takes 4 minutes to boot and comes with dozens of crapware.
Interestingly, smartphones also "dual boot", but the 2nd system is usually just a simple one that does system updates or recovery (i.e. write an OS image to the main system partition).
netsharc|1 year ago
The previous 14 minutes is him showing how this Vaio takes 4 minutes to boot and comes with dozens of crapware.
Interestingly, smartphones also "dual boot", but the 2nd system is usually just a simple one that does system updates or recovery (i.e. write an OS image to the main system partition).