How fast does your Computer Boot up with Zorin?

If fact, I feel the speed limiting factor exists between monitor and chair. For example, I cannot type as fast as I can think.

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It depends. When you using example menu start with 5 second. Then waiting for loading all stuff it takes some 60 second or more but it is very funny watching how it loading like a hackintosh or apple operative system. I remember Mint was faster but it could change long time don't tried him.

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22 posts were split to a new topic: Old tech vs. New tech

17 seconds on a quad core i5 x230 lenovo.

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About 50 seconds on my laptop with a hardrive and 30 seconds on a desktop which boots from a sd card

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On my Zorin 15.3 my boot load time usually take 30 seconds or not less than 25 seconds. I don't know for the 16 version coz I'm waiting for the direct upgrade. :sweat_smile:

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Startup finished in 2.996s (firmware) + 6.009s (loader) + 2.483s (kernel) + 11.896s (userspace) = 23.385s
graphical.target reached after 11.858s in userspace

Sata 3 SSD, 6th gen Pentium, 4gb ddr4 ram

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WOW, your post was surprisingly quite scientific with your attention to detail. Quite informative, good job!

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Wold you mind to tell us which software you used to get those figures?
I was so impressed.

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systemd-analyze

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Mine is
startup finished in 5.736s (kernel) + 54.470s (userspace) = 1min 206ms
graphical.target reached after 54.383s in userspace it took 1 minute to boot. Its still decent cuz the laptop is old and slow.

I am not count how fast boot but Zorin is very fast to response anything what you want open or anything what can save time when you lost when Zorin started. :grinning: :grinning:

i installed zorin on ssd and this is my systemd-blame. it'so fast that i'm not aware about boot time beside the choosing screen because of dual boot with windows

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I forgot about this thread. Now that I am running Zorin OS 16 on this old dual core workstation, its time to provide my systemd-analyze.

Startup finished in 8.114s (kernel) + 14.740s (userspace) = 22.855s
graphical.target reached after 14.712s in userspace

SYSTEM SPECS:
Acer Aspire 5733Z-4816
Pentium R P6200 dual core 2.1GHZ CPU
8GB DDR 1066 RAM
Intel HD Integrated Graphics
Samsung 850 Pro SATA III SSD Drive

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1 second.
1sec

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Windows 10 most likely is utilizing fastboot on your system which is a form of hibernation. you can enable this in Zorin by using **sudo apt-get install fastboot but as with windows this takes page/swap space and can sometimes cause boot issues.

for my laptop running zorin pro 16.1 lite takes 33 seconds my desktop zorin pro 16.1 about 24 seconds.

** edit** installed fastboot on my laptop just now - shutdown and restarted 3x @ 19 seconds, 17 seconds and 26 seconds.

I checked on Zorin you have option a hibernate i checked working perfectly and very fast on xfce without problems.

Let me chime in with my long boot process. First off: I had to repair my boot partition recently, so that could have been a reason why it is taking so long now... But maybe someone has a different idea.

systemd-analyze

Startup finished in 7.829s (firmware) + 8.838s (loader) + 5.319s (kernel) + 1min 54.129s (userspace) = 2min 16.116s 

systemd-analyze blame

22.621s plymouth-quit-wait.service                           
 6.361s NetworkManager-wait-online.service                   
 2.648s dev-sda4.device                                      
 1.372s snapd.service                                        
 1.365s dev-loop1.device                                     
 1.352s dev-loop2.device                                     
 1.309s dev-loop8.device                                     
 1.308s dev-loop3.device                                     
 1.302s dev-loop4.device                                     
 1.297s dev-loop5.device                                     
 1.262s dev-loop6.device                                     
 1.200s dev-loop7.device                                     
 1.003s networkd-dispatcher.service                          
  797ms fwupd.service                                        
  449ms systemd-journal-flush.service                        
  446ms systemd-logind.service                               
  430ms dev-loop0.device                                     
  404ms tlp.service                                          
  251ms snap-snapd-15177.mount                               
  249ms udisks2.service                                      
  222ms accounts-daemon.service                              
  184ms snap-sdlpop-472.mount                                
  155ms polkit.service                                       
  149ms avahi-daemon.service                                 
  148ms bluetooth.service                                    
  147ms NetworkManager.service                               
  146ms snap-gtk\x2dcommon\x2dthemes-1515.mount              
  138ms iio-sensor-proxy.service                             
  128ms virtualbox.service                                   
  127ms switcheroo-control.service                           
  125ms apparmor.service                                     
  123ms thermald.service                                     
  120ms wpa_supplicant.service                               
  116ms ModemManager.service                                 
  115ms snap-gnome\x2d3\x2d28\x2d1804-161.mount              
  103ms snap-snapd-15534.mount                               
   91ms user@1000.service                                    
   89ms systemd-journald.service                             
   89ms systemd-udev-trigger.service                         
   89ms gpu-manager.service                                  
   87ms systemd-udevd.service                                
   85ms upower.service                                       
   84ms snap-core18-2344.mount                               
   77ms secureboot-db.service                                
   71ms systemd-resolved.service                             
   68ms systemd-timesyncd.service                            
   67ms keyboard-setup.service                               
   61ms gdm.service                                          
   60ms rsyslog.service                                      
   49ms snap-core18-2284.mount                               
   46ms swapfile.swap                                        
   46ms colord.service                                       
   45ms snapd.seeded.service                                 
   45ms snap-gtk\x2dcommon\x2dthemes-1519.mount              
   44ms systemd-backlight@backlight:intel_backlight.service  
   44ms snapd.apparmor.service                               
   42ms lm-sensors.service                                   
   42ms grub-common.service                                  
   40ms systemd-modules-load.service                         
   31ms kerneloops.service                                   
   27ms packagekit.service                                   
   26ms grub-initrd-fallback.service                         
   25ms e2scrub_reap.service                                 
   24ms snap-bare-5.mount                                    
   21ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service                       
   20ms plymouth-start.service                               
   18ms systemd-random-seed.service                          
   18ms systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service                       
   16ms systemd-sysctl.service                               
   15ms systemd-sysusers.service                             
   13ms pppd-dns.service                                     
   13ms alsa-restore.service                                 
   13ms systemd-update-utmp.service                          
   12ms plymouth-read-write.service                          
   10ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service                   
   10ms systemd-user-sessions.service                        
    9ms systemd-remount-fs.service                           
    9ms dev-mqueue.mount                                     
    9ms dev-hugepages.mount                                  
    9ms sys-kernel-debug.mount                               
    8ms sys-kernel-tracing.mount                             
    8ms user-runtime-dir@1000.service                        
    7ms systemd-update-utmp-runlevel.service                 
    7ms hddtemp.service                                      
    6ms kmod-static-nodes.service                            
    5ms console-setup.service                                
    5ms ufw.service                                          
    4ms sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount                        
    3ms sys-kernel-config.mount                              
    3ms rtkit-daemon.service                                 
    3ms setvtrgb.service                                     
    3ms openvpn.service                                      
    2ms vsftpd.service                                       
    1ms nordvpnd.socket                                      
  570us snapd.socket                                         
  179us clean-mount-point@media-albi-CACAB5D4CAB5BD4F.service

systemd-analyze critical-chain

graphical.target @1min 53.721s
└─multi-user.target @1min 53.721s
  └─virtualbox.service @1min 37.448s +128ms
    └─network-online.target @1min 37.442s
      └─NetworkManager-wait-online.service @1min 31.080s +6.361s
        └─NetworkManager.service @1min 30.932s +147ms
          └─dbus.service @1min 30.929s
            └─basic.target @1min 30.922s
              └─sockets.target @1min 30.922s
                └─snapd.socket @1min 30.921s +570us
                  └─sysinit.target @1min 30.918s
                    └─snapd.apparmor.service @1min 30.874s +44ms
                      └─apparmor.service @1min 30.748s +125ms
                        └─systemd-journald.socket @644ms
                          └─system.slice @641ms
                            └─-.slice @641ms

EDIT:
This is the output of /var/log/boot.log

------------ Mon May 02 09:50:03 CEST 2022 ------------
/dev/sda4: clean, 2015979/15515648 files, 46243352/62032640 blocks
[e[0;1;31m TIME e[0m] Timed out waiting for device e[0;1;39m/dev/disk/by-uuid/F752-17D5e[0m.
[e[0;1;38;5;185mDEPENDe[0m] Dependency failed for e[0;1;39m/boot/efie[0m.
[e[0;1;38;5;185mDEPENDe[0m] Dependency failed for e[0;1;39mLocal File Systemse[0m.
[e[0;1;38;5;185mDEPENDe[0m] Dependency failed for e[0;1;39mFile…n /dev/disk/by-uuid/F752-17D5e[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Finished e[0;1;39mTell Plymouth To Write Out Runtime Datae[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Finished e[0;1;39mCreate Volatile Files and Directoriese[0m.
         Starting e[0;1;39mNetwork Name Resolutione[0m...
         Starting e[0;1;39mNetwork Time Synchronizatione[0m...
         Starting e[0;1;39mUpdate UTMP about System Boot/Shutdowne[0m...
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Finished e[0;1;39mUpdate UTMP about System Boot/Shutdowne[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mNetwork Time Synchronizatione[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Reached target e[0;1;39mSystem Time Sete[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Reached target e[0;1;39mSystem Time Synchronizede[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mNetwork Name Resolutione[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Reached target e[0;1;39mHost and Network Name Lookupse[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Finished e[0;1;39mLoad AppArmor profilese[0m.
         Starting e[0;1;39mLoad AppArmor pro…managed internally by snapde[0m...
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Finished e[0;1;39mLoad AppArmor pro…s managed internally by snapde[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Reached target e[0;1;39mSystem Initializatione[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mACPI Events Checke[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mCUPS Schedulere[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mTrigger anacron every houre[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mDaily apt download activitiese[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mDaily apt upgrade and clean activitiese[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mPeriodic ext4 Onli…ata Check for All Filesystemse[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mDiscard unused blocks once a weeke[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mRefresh fwupd metadata regularlye[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mDaily rotation of log filese[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mDaily man-db regeneratione[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mMessage of the Daye[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mDaily Cleanup of Temporary Directoriese[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Reached target e[0;1;39mPathse[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Reached target e[0;1;39mTimerse[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Listening on e[0;1;39mACPID Listen Sockete[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Listening on e[0;1;39mAvahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stack Activation Sockete[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Listening on e[0;1;39mCUPS Schedulere[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Listening on e[0;1;39mD-Bus System Message Bus Sockete[0m.
         Starting e[0;1;39mNordVPN Daemon Sockete[0m.
         Starting e[0;1;39mSocket activation for snappy daemone[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Listening on e[0;1;39mUUID daemon activation sockete[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Listening on e[0;1;39mNordVPN Daemon Sockete[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Listening on e[0;1;39mSocket activation for snappy daemone[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Reached target e[0;1;39mSocketse[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Reached target e[0;1;39mBasic Systeme[0m.
         Starting e[0;1;39mAccounts Servicee[0m...
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mACPI event daemone[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mRun anacron jobse[0m.
         Starting e[0;1;39mAvahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stacke[0m...
         Starting e[0;1;39mBluetooth servicee[0m...
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mRegular background program processing daemone[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mCUPS Schedulere[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mD-Bus System Message Buse[0m.
         Starting e[0;1;39mNetwork Managere[0m...
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mSave initial kernel messages after boote[0m.
         Starting e[0;1;39mRemove Stale Onli…t4 Metadata Check Snapshotse[0m...
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Reached target e[0;1;39mLogin Promptse[0m.
         Starting e[0;1;39mDetect the availa…eal with any system changese[0m...
         Starting e[0;1;39mRecord successful boot for GRUBe[0m...
         Starting e[0;1;39mIIO Sensor Proxy servicee[0m...
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mirqbalance daemone[0m.
         Starting e[0;1;39mInitialize hardware monitoring sensorse[0m...
         Starting e[0;1;39mDispatcher daemon for systemd-networkde[0m...
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mSet the CPU Frequency Scaling governore[0m.
         Starting e[0;1;39mAuthorization Managere[0m...
         Starting e[0;1;39mRestore /etc/reso… the ppp link was shut downe[0m...
         Starting e[0;1;39mSystem Logging Servicee[0m...
         Starting e[0;1;39mSecure Boot updates for DB and DBXe[0m...
         Starting e[0;1;39mSnap Daemone[0m...
         Starting e[0;1;39mSwitcheroo Control Proxy servicee[0m...
         Starting e[0;1;39mLogin Servicee[0m...
         Starting e[0;1;39mThermal Daemon Servicee[0m...
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mTouchégg Daemone[0m.
         Starting e[0;1;39mDisk Managere[0m...
         Starting e[0;1;39mWPA supplicante[0m...
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Finished e[0;1;39mRestore /etc/reso…re the ppp link was shut downe[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Finished e[0;1;39mRemove Stale Onli…ext4 Metadata Check Snapshotse[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Finished e[0;1;39mRecord successful boot for GRUBe[0m.
         Starting e[0;1;39mGRUB failed boot detectione[0m...
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Finished e[0;1;39mInitialize hardware monitoring sensorse[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mSystem Logging Servicee[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Finished e[0;1;39mGRUB failed boot detectione[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Finished e[0;1;39mDetect the availa… deal with any system changese[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Finished e[0;1;39mSecure Boot updates for DB and DBXe[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mBluetooth servicee[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mAvahi mDNS/DNS-SD Stacke[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Reached target e[0;1;39mBluetoothe[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mMake remote CUPS printers available locallye[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mThermal Daemon Servicee[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mWPA supplicante[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mIIO Sensor Proxy servicee[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mSwitcheroo Control Proxy servicee[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mNetwork Managere[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Reached target e[0;1;39mNetworke[0m.
         Starting e[0;1;39mNetwork Manager Wait Onlinee[0m...
         Starting e[0;1;39mSave/Restore Sound Card Statee[0m...
         Starting e[0;1;39mManage, Install and Generate Color Profilese[0m...
         Starting e[0;1;39mOpenVPN servicee[0m...
         Starting e[0;1;39mPermit User Sessionse[0m...
         Starting e[0;1;39mvsftpd FTP servere[0m...
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Finished e[0;1;39mOpenVPN servicee[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mvsftpd FTP servere[0m.
         Starting e[0;1;39mHostname Servicee[0m...
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Finished e[0;1;39mPermit User Sessionse[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Finished e[0;1;39mSave/Restore Sound Card Statee[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Reached target e[0;1;39mSound Carde[0m.
         Starting e[0;1;39mGNOME Display Managere[0m...
         Starting e[0;1;39mHold until boot process finishes upe[0m...
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mAuthorization Managere[0m.
         Starting e[0;1;39mModem Managere[0m...
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mManage, Install and Generate Color Profilese[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mAccounts Servicee[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mHostname Servicee[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mGNOME Display Managere[0m.
         Starting e[0;1;39mNetwork Manager Script Dispatcher Servicee[0m...
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mDisk Managere[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mNetwork Manager Script Dispatcher Servicee[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mModem Managere[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mLogin Servicee[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mUnattended Upgrades Shutdowne[0m.
         Starting e[0;1;39mDaemon for power managemente[0m...
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mDaemon for power managemente[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mDispatcher daemon for systemd-networkde[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mSnap Daemone[0m.
         Starting e[0;1;39mWait until snapd is fully seedede[0m...
         Starting e[0;1;39mTime & Date Servicee[0m...
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Started e[0;1;39mTime & Date Servicee[0m.
[e[0;32m  OK  e[0m] Finished e[0;1;39mWait until snapd is fully seedede[0m.

Everything looks normal. Snapd can cause slower boot.
You also can disable NetworkManager-wait-online.service to shave a few seconds off boot time.

sudo systemctl disable NetworkManager-wait-online.service

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Thanks for looking into it. It seems in the blame output that everything is pretty standard. But look at the total time of over 2 minutes. Userspace alone takes 1:54 min. There is definitely something holding up the boot process but I think, if I don't just want to reinstall Zorin, it will be a long error hunt...