alt Hacker NewsOn a modern laptop running Linux, the three slowest things in the boot are:
- The firmware
- The bootloader timeout
- Waiting for the user to type the encryption passphrase
Everything else takes almost no time at all. So, if you can eliminate 5 seconds from the boot process in the normal case, without eliminating your ability to debug the system in the unusual case, that's a win.
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Zardoz84 • 05/04/2025
if you use the TPM storage, you can avoid typing the encryption passphrase
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lofaszvanitt • 05/04/2025
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But how often do you boot a modern laptop in the first place? I feel lke the time I save in not waiting those 5 seconds occasionally is all going to be spent again in the minutes wasted having to look up how I stop the instant autoboot (or failing to stop the autoboot and having to reset and try again) the first time I need to actually interact with grub...