in an era where many systems are always-on and suspend/resume working more reliably these days
… do people not turn their computers off when they’re done using them?
this post was submitted on 25 May 2026
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I sure don't, my current record is 6 years (On Windows no less lmao)
..."done"?
Sleep is important
Your boot time is slow?
Mine goes from cold off to login screen in 5 seconds
All my boot time comes from LUKS decryption...
Same
@unexposedhazard @cm0002 Das sollte nicht so sein, symmetrische Ciphers sind schnell
So wie ichs verstehe ist Argon2 absichtlich "langsam" um bruteforce Angriffe zu erschweren. Auf meinem 5800X3D brauchts nur ~2 Sekunden aber auf nem Thinkpad mit deutlich weniger compute sind das eher so 10 Sekunden.
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.
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)
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.
Bazzite take a very long time to load on a 16gb ram core i7 laptop i have. Something like 30s at least. So I'd take any advice to improve that
The way I improved it was by remembering that 30 seconds isn't actually a long time at all
Doesn't systemd have a command to do something similar? Why use this.
But also, you guys reboot? 😅
PCs on my room and shutting it down is a good ritual to sleep
It takes my system 3 seconds to go from POST to a gui login, so uuhhh, what boot times