How to Fix Slow Linux Boot Times

[zuhairahmed]

Give the solution... Dont just time pass

[macblink]

I'm gonna try this, linux mint operates faster than w10, but the boot time is actually slower for me

[norm]

Thanks for the tutorial to measure the times

[JuanPabloFuentealba]

Hi Chris, what's your machine? I got to amd ryzen 1st gen 1 ryzen 3 and the other ryzen 5, both with manjaro and the ryzen 3 start up faster then ryzen 5

[alexberezin]

Winamp on Linux, Chris? How the... or is it in Wine, and there's no magic? :)

[davebean]

I'm chasing a slow boot time issue with Linux Mint Mate 21 (and 20.3) full install to USB. I've been running on one of my older laptops which probably is a 2.0 USB Port. The full install USB takes 5 minutes to boot. 5 minutes x 2 times per day x 300 days a year is 50 hours or more than a standard work week booting. Oddly, both the Live Demo and Live with persistence USBs boot in 1 minute. What the heck is the full install do different.

I always run Linux from USB boot drives - I have dozens which I can use with several laptops.
So far I've disconnected my hard drive on my oldest laptop - maybe saved 15 seconds, not sure.

I don't have the exact times yet, but tried Mint XFCE 21 just to see - oddly the Live Demo takes way longer - maybe 6 minutes to boot and not completely sure, but I think the fully installed version is 4 minutes or so.

Some ideas others have presented is some sort of disk checking going on. From your video, I wonder if there might be a full index happening. Might of missed something, but analyze and analyze blame don't seem to find anything in minutes.

Most suggestions have been to install to hard drive or internal SSD. I may do this eventually, but for now, I really want to know what the full Mint Mate install is doing that takes it 5 times longer to boot than the Live USBs.

Ideas?

I've been going through Install Linux the Right Way video and have created Debian Mate (thought would look like Mint Mate, but does not), Cinnamon, and LXQt. Debian Mate boots in 2 minutes, Cinnamon takes maybe 3 1/2 minutes and LXQt boots a little slower than Debian Mate. With Mint Mate Live booting in 1 minute, is a 2 minute boot for full install achievable?

As an aside, I've had problems getting my Epson Wireless Printer to work and connect with Mint Mate 20.3 and 21 for a year, spending hours with lots of help from the Facebook Mint groups (appreciate). Oddly throwing a bunch of .deb downloads and other scripts did get my printer working on one Live persistent USB - not a clue what I did and can't seem to duplicate, but still have the working printer Live persistent USB - so far after dozens of tries with every combination of printer configuration choices and have not been able to get my Epson wireless printer to work.

With vanilla Debian - my experience with the vanilla Debian was different.

Debian Mate worked the after configuring with Cups or Configuration (don't remember which, but not hard) ... and had to laugh with LXQt the desktop automatically found my printer and set it up and it works without me doing any configuration at all. Too bad I can't find a display configuration for LXQt to let me use my desktop monitor with my normally closed lid laptop. Perhaps best discussed on the Install Linux the Right Way video comments - great video - thanks.

[SApcProSergijAleksovski]

Hi, I like to ask Which desktop environment he uses?

[yashbhatt]

It's taking me 10 minute to start and it's lagging

[iambasanta]

I have my os in ssd and I moved my home directory to my hdd . After shifting home directory, it is taking too much time to boot.

[anshsrivastava]

In my HDD, it takes ~90 secs with cryptsetup and dracut taking a long time.

[vim]

it is taking me 23 seconds to start man-db.service on arch. does anyone know how to improve this?

[faquir]

Hello, i am trying recycler a laptop ASUS G1 and old one laptop; and i trying to fing a good distribution working good and faster then windows, i have 3go of ram intel centrino duo and nvidea 7700, i put a POP os, and i change the HDD with SSD 128Go.

and i feel working normal and using that computer for a normal activity, but the boot it s so long then other distribution i tried before why, and the problem is not of me i see a lot of peopel have the same probleme with POP os and ubuntu too.

and i realy do not know why even i was looking by the web i did not get answer !!!
thank you if you can help of it.

[johngoard]

So my systemd-analyze is telling me it starts in 15 secs but shows no apps that are running and I have to wait at least four to five minutes for the machine to boot to Linux Mint login screen so what do I do??

[JohnTitor]

The old dell im using boot in 7.5, minimal hardware upgrades have been added. Linux did wonders for this fossil. Thanks for a concise video, but goddammit this is too unscripted for me tastes.

[nadjemtech]

My pc take a 5 to 10 minute to start 😭
I don't know the solution.
I have MX Linux. Maybe problem in GRUB

[kuroshite]

Lmao my cheap ass laptop boots in 12-15 seconds

[treehuggerjoe]

men !! you talk a lot of BS stick with the subject