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Boot-Time Wizard Aims To Help Reduce Linux Boot Times (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] 2 points 5 months ago* (3 children)

5 seconds? How?

My grub is set to 2sec.

From pressing the power on button to an open start menu (I measure like this because the DE is still unusable for a good 5s after it becomes visible) it takes me about 36 seconds.

I recently tried hibernation thinking it would speed things up, but it takes about 2 minutes... huge RAM bad I guess.

(And yes, windows on the same hardware is way faster at about 17s, because it does some magic idk about)

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Hibernation shouldn't take long unless you actually have a lot in ram. It won't write empty ram, it's really more like swapping out all pages.

    Maybe your ssd is just slow? Some motherboards also take their sweet time.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Windows has had a "fast startup" thing for a while where it hibernates just some parts of the OS.

    I used to always disable it because I've run into situations where having it off prevented issues that appeared with it on.

    Fortunately I don't have to use any Windows machines on a regular basis now, so it doesn't matter.

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