your phone isn't booting a linux desktop. it's booting a java virtual machine and within it a whole stack and within it the stuff that behaves like a desktop environment and all that from shit-slow, unreliable storage.
honestly, with the whole chain it's amazing that everything boots and runs so well.
I swear phones used to boot fast but now I'm well over a minute of waiting. My laptop is like 14s, come on phone, keep up.
Ohhhboy, let me tell you about Blackberry startups. Everything is a gift compared to those boot times.
No joke. I used to work Tech Support and we would be forced to schedule callbacks for BlackBerry devices. The most locked down shit I've ever seen. The level of locked in would make a Nintendo Executive blush. Thankfully BlackBerry was on the way out in that time
I don't know.
But it's not all phones. I've had some android devices that take over a minute to start up, but my current Xperia 1V also only takes 20 seconds to ask for the pin, then another 2-4 seconds for the home screen to fully show.
I do want to point out that phones aren't running blazing-fast ssds. Lots of android devices run fairly sluggish eMMC flash.
For a while now, I've been making sure the android devices I buy are running a recent standard of UFS flash, instead. The difference is noticable, just with stuff like opening apps and moving files around.
you can get somewhat of an impression of it if after a reboot you get a logcat dump. for that, you need to enable ADB, and install the ADB tools on a computer. but disable ADB if you don't use it
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