How Long Does Linux Mint Take to Boot?

How Long Does Linux Mint Take to Boot?
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Re: How much time does Linux Mint takes to boot up? My 11 year old eMachines takes about 12 to 15 seconds from power-on, and about 4 or 5 seconds from the grub menu (when linux starts doing something) to desktop.

How do I make Linux Mint boot faster?

How To Speed up Linux Mint Boot!

  1. Disable all un-needed services and applications from starting up, …
  2. Go to the terminal and type in. …
  3. ( NOTE : THIS WILL DISABLE LINUX FROM CHECKING YOUR HARD DRIVES EVERYTIME YOU BOOT.. it speeds it up alot, but if something goes wrong with your hard drive, you wont know! )

How long does it take for Linux to boot?

Checking boot time in Linux with systemd-analyze

The systemd-analyze command gives you a detail of how many services ran at the last start up and how long they took. As you can see in the output above, it took about 35 seconds for my system to reach the screen where I could enter my password.

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