Literally don’t personally care about boot time, as long as it’s under 30-60s (currently at about ~5?), and since I reboot like once a month, I don’t really pay much attention to it. How come you want to minimize that so much? Any particular target you want to achieve?

It does not matter unless you reboot your machine every hour.

Stop rebooting, problem solved!

Anything under 20s is fine with me… I never timed my laptop but I think it is since it’s got an ssd

# systemd-analyze time

Startup finished in 39.050s (firmware) + 6.680s (loader) + 993ms (kernel) + 3.519s (initrd) + 22.326s (userspace) = 1min 12.570s 
graphical.target reached after 21.680s in userspace.

for me, most time is used until the bootloader shows up, because I had to disable “fast boot” in bios because it made some problems on rebooting. pressing enter in grub could speed up 5 seconds more ;-) gentoo, systemd, 2x2tb nvme, 32 gb ram, 4 hdds. could be faster, but it mostly doesn’t matter because I power on the system every morning but don’t use it right away

edit: on my server, which is not UEFI, therefore has no “firmware” part:

# systemd-analyze time
Startup finished in 1.814s (kernel) + 47.640s (initrd) + 36.602s (userspace) = 1min 26.057s 
graphical.target reached after 36.602s in userspace.

and on my laptop, which boots fast AF

# systemd-analyze time
Startup finished in 4.242s (firmware) + 14.631s (loader) + 1.737s (kernel) + 3.210s (initrd) + 5.136s (userspace) = 28.959s 
graphical.target reached after 4.936s in userspace.

Linux 6.5 Should Spend Less Time Waiting On PCIe Devices: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.5-PCI

Mine used to be around 14-15s on Arch, with like 8-9s in firmware. With Fedora and Ubuntu its around 20s.

24GB ram, 256+512 nvme

My server takes about a minute but it’s a dual core Atom with 1.8gb of ram >_<

I got everything on luks so it takes ages but still feels good

1. a few minutes. Usually I expect 2, claim 5, but when updating gitlab or something equally bloated I’ll need 7-10 for the patch-and-bounce.

2. no one cares whether it takes a minute extra while you’re getting coffee or when it’s in the middle of the night. The #1 selling feature of systemd is thus moot and it’s truly just a piece of hot garbage.

Last time I rebooted the laptop it was about 30 seconds… six months ago.

Seriously guys, why the boot time that important nowadays ?

I don’t care about boot time. I switch her on and then go and grab a coffee, by the time I’m done she’s finished booting.

Startup finished in 5.254s (kernel) + 9.783s (userspace) = 15.037s
graphical.target reached after 9.749s in userspace.

I don’t reboot often, 64 GB RAM and a 1TB Samsung 850 EVO-series SSD as the boot drive. Computer was built in 2019 so a tad bit old but still doing well.

The slowest part of booting is the part where I have to enter my full disk encryption password. That takes around 20 seconds if I do not make a typo. Total boot time is probably around 1:30.

About twenty seconds from ‘power button’ to ‘desktop’ on my laptop, about two minutes on my desktop, mainly because it’s got about 9 disks in it in various RAID patterns, and a discrete graphics card and fancy USB audio and all that shit needs initialised. Doesn’t matter much, they both sleep / hibernate and rarely need restarted