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Boot-Time Wizard Aims To Help Reduce Linux Boot Times
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this post was submitted on 25 May 2026
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I boot off an SSD and besides intentional delays like waiting to see if I want to pick a different kernel, it only takes a handful of seconds. I don't really see the issue, but it's a good cause and best of luck I guess.
That's basically what the article states. Most users have fast enough systems to not bother with this tool, but embedded systems and other slow hardware could benefit from this. I imagine it's mostly useful for engineers (and smart home hobbyists) to optimize processes or product lines.
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)
Mine's set to 0 unless I'm holding shift
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.
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.