Slow boot time

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Hi, Garuda is fine, good distro but there is one downside of garuda and that is slow boot. I used garuda-kde-lite months ago and it was just fine that time. however i installed it today again and the boot is very slow. I think this is because of btrfs and zstd( might be) .. but seriously btrfs by default and zstd is not beneficial. I never got my data curropted in ext4 ... ext4 is working perfectly from years for me. garuda claims to be only focused on performance but the starting point( boot time ) itself is extremely slow. I will request the developers to fix this issue. This issue have been raised by many before and is a serious issue. --- Garuda takes many seconds to show the grub bootloader.---
and while installing from a live media.. it not only takes time to show bootloader but also lags in bootloader while os is very smooth. KDE is very smooth .. (NOTE: i also have qtile edition and this issue also exists in qtile)

Startup finished in 9.067s (firmware) + 27.824s (loader) + 6.280s (kernel) + 1.838s (userspace) = 45.010s
graphical.target reached after 1.838s in userspace.

491ms grub-btrfs-snapper.service
422ms systemd-logind.service
419ms dev-sdb2.device
247ms ModemManager.service
231ms systemd-journal-flush.service
179ms udisks2.service
174ms user@1000.service
173ms lvm2-monitor.service
138ms systemd-udev-trigger.service
101ms NetworkManager.service
 86ms systemd-remount-fs.service
 84ms systemd-journald.service
 80ms upower.service
 73ms systemd-oomd.service
 72ms systemd-timesyncd.service
 64ms systemd-backlight@leds:dell::kbd_backlight.service
 57ms systemd-udevd.service
 50ms avahi-daemon.service
 45ms polkit.service
 42ms dbus.service
 38ms boot-efi.mount
 37ms systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-3DDA\x2dFEA1.service
 26ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
 24ms systemd-update-utmp.service
 23ms modprobe@fuse.service
 21ms wpa_supplicant.service
 21ms systemd-modules-load.service
 12ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
 12ms dev-hugepages.mount
 11ms dev-mqueue.mount
 11ms sys-kernel-debug.mount
 10ms systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service
 10ms sys-kernel-tracing.mount
  9ms systemd-random-seed.service
  9ms kmod-static-nodes.service
  9ms user-runtime-dir@1000.service
  8ms root.mount
  8ms systemd-backlight@backlight:intel_backlight.service
  8ms srv.mount
  7ms modprobe@configfs.service
  7ms var-cache.mount
  7ms home.mount
  7ms modprobe@drm.service
  6ms var-log.mount
  6ms systemd-sysctl.service
  6ms systemd-rfkill.service
  6ms var-tmp.mount
  6ms linux-modules-cleanup.service
  4ms systemd-user-sessions.service
  3ms rtkit-daemon.service
  2ms tmp.mount
  2ms sys-kernel-config.mount
  2ms sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount
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“You are on your own, we do not provide any support for KDE lite editions!”

Plus you’re missing your garuda-inxi anyway and this should be under the subcategory of unsupported software

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haha i expected that. so i will raise another issue.. because i also have garuda qtile and the same problem exists in qtile also...so i think i need to raise an issue for the qtile edition?

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This is not in control of Garuda developers. If you are not satisfied, install older versions of GRUB or switch bootloader.

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5

This should be related to the notorious grub problem.
If you garuda-update, you will roll back to the previous grub package and then reinstalling the grub and update-grub should restore the situation.

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how to do that ?

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well this only happens in garuda linux and not other linux so...

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i have used many distros and all rolling distros like garuda and i never had this problem in them.. so this might be in control of garuda...

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garuda-update
grub-install
update-grub
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10

This is a 100% upstream bug, and it has been recognized as the first severe bug for the GRUB package since a long time, so it makes really no sense to make comparisons with other distros in the past.

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Startup finished in 9.081s (firmware) + 4.292s (loader) + 6.361s (kernel) + 2.469s (userspace) = 22.205s
graphical.target reached after 2.469s in userspace.

thanks...

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hey, thank you for the solution. but i would recommend to update-grub in the next releases just to avoid this problem... in the next release of isos it will be great to not get this problem....

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For sure. That's the version in our repo, so it will be in the next releases.

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thank you.. i am just using garuda kde lite edition... because its minimal....qtile is removed days ago... qtile was so much bloated......

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Try sway then

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no kde works fine.. is smooth without issues...

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i only install those os which is minimal with graphical environment becuase with bloated ones i dont know what is being installed and how are they configured.. in garuda linux i have used qtile for 1 day and kde lite edition for many days.. and still using kde lite

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