Share your boot up time! Garuda wins!

I’ve probably never had such a fast boot up time on this old laptop. I was using voidlinux for 4 years and then alpine linux for a 2 months and I thought boot up time is quite good but for some unknown reason (to me) Garuda is even faster… It could only be 3 or 4 secs faster, but still :slight_smile:

Share an output of systemd-analyze, and your PC specs. I’m curious.
Here’s mine:

Startup finished in 3.316s (kernel) + 786ms (initrd) + 3.207s (userspace) = 7.311s
graphical.target reached after 2.314s in userspace.

I bought this laptop in 2014 (or 2015):
Lenovo Y50-70
CPU: Intel i7-4720HQ (8) @ 3.600GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M
GPU: Intel 4th Gen Core Processor
Memory: 1683MiB / 7859MiB
WM: sway

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wow, 3 seconds is fast as hell :joy:

Startup finished in 7.630s (firmware) + 7.622s (loader) + 1.164s (kernel) + 2.927s (initrd) + 2.296s (userspac
e) = 21.640s
graphical.target reached after 2.295s in userspace.

Got the MSI Katana 15 B12V
CPU: i7-12650H
RAM: 16GB
GPU: RTX 4070 Max-Q

Have you tweaked the system or how the heck does your system boots that fast tho :melting_face:

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Startup finished in 6.375s (firmware) + 7.101s (loader) + 1.281s (kernel) + 4.241s (initrd) + 23.083s (userspace) = 42.084s
graphical.target reached after 23.078s in userspace.

Lenovo Ideapad 320
CPU: AMD E2-9000 Radeon R2 (2016 I think…)
RAM: 8GB
GPU: AMD Radeon R2
DE: GNOME (Almost fresh) Dual boot with KDE
KERNEL: Linux Bore

Not that my system is something to boast about (I was not even gonna post) but damn, I expected much worse…

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Here’s KDE result:

Startup finished in 6.331s (firmware) + 5.992s (loader) + 1.279s (kernel) + 3.113s (initrd) + 11.664s (userspace) = 28.382s
graphical.target reached after 9.800s in userspace.

KDE wins :smiley:

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systemd-analyze 
Startup finished in 3.411s (firmware) + 10.241s (loader) + 544ms (kernel) + 2.129s (initrd) + 2.639s (userspace) = 18.966s 
graphical.target reached after 2.639s in userspace.

Hyprland :wink:

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Yep, even I assume Hyprland will take only 5s startup time on mine because it’s so light…
Will try that in future and post (got a reason to go back lol)

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I have changed from hdd to ssd, so I guess I have tweaked a system. I’m surprised myself about boot speed, however, this is a fresh install and I have only installed extra Garuda wallpapers so, there is no extra read-time I assume. Using sway-wm also helps I assume. You are using ssd as well, right?

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Startup finished in 2.565s (kernel) + 4.456s (initrd) + 4.601s (userspace) = 11.623s
graphical.target reached after 4.601s in userspace.

My system:
CPU: Ryzen 5 5600X
GPU: Radeon 6700XT
Memory: 32GB 5600 DDR4
SSD: Crucial P5 2TB NVME (Gen4)
DE: Dr460nized

This has me winning by 0.041 seconds :rofl:

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Startup finished in 3.494s (firmware) + 4.242s (loader) + 826ms (kernel) + 3.625s (initrd) + 2.426s (userspace) = 14.614s
graphical.target reached after 2.129s in userspace.

CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 5800H (16) @ 4.46 GHz
GPU: AMD Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q
Memory: 2.81 GiB / 13.50 GiB (21%)
Kernel: 6.5.9-zen2-1-zen

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❯ systemd-analyze 
Startup finished in 13.748s (firmware) + 7.258s (loader) + 5.515s (kernel) + 8.197s (userspace) = 34.720s 
graphical.target reached after 8.197s in userspace.
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770K (8) @ 3.90 GHz
GPU: AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
Memory: 3.50 GiB / 23.42 GiB
Kernel: 6.6.1-zen1-1-zen

not bad for 15 year old hardware lmao >.>
firmware has password at boot so it takes a few extra seconds.

Edit:
this is without the bios PW at boot:

Startup finished in 7.992s (firmware) + 3.518s (loader) + 4.924s (kernel) + 5.388s (userspace) = 21.825s 
graphical.target reached after 5.388s in userspace.

Edit 2:
new image, firmware time includes a 3 second countdown in Grub for OS selection.

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Wow! 23.4GiB memory?! What are you trying to remember? :smiley:

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i’d tell you if i could >.>

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Wow!!! you lot I need a new pc :rofl: :grinning: :grinning: :grinning:

λ systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 20.154s (firmware) + 5.519s (loader) + 2.254s (kernel) + 13.566s (userspace) = 41.494s
graphical.target reached after 13.565s in userspace.

CPU: 13th Gen Intel i9-13900K (32) @ 5.8GHz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090
Memory: 7.11GiB / 62.51GiB

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How can I miss the chance to showoff my fastfetch :grin:

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Oh, yes, that’s very pretty. I thought it’s default of Garuda KDE version and if it’s not, it should be :slight_smile:

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wtf lol my 12 year old ‘potato’ is faster than yours?

lulz >.>

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Says the one with most bleeding edge overpowered pc here… (Atleast out of those who have posted). :eyes:

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and mine is ‘ancient’ and statistically speaking the most efficient so far lmao

i’m itching to build a new one with modern components and see what i can do, but i’m too poor these days to drop 10k on a new rig.

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