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)

[–] Redjard@reddthat.com 4 points 2 days 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.

[–] Zink@programming.dev 3 points 2 days 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.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Mine's set to 0 unless I'm holding shift