r/linuxmint • u/Tilanguin • 3d ago
Support Request 1 minute boot time on fresh install? (Thinkpad P15)
Hello, fresh install of Linux Mint cinnamon on a Thinkpad P15 GEN1, 32gb ram, 512gb NVme.
Gemini asked me for the blame list, and recommended some grub changes (change the timeout wait on online services) but most of its recommendations were already applied.
It seems that this long boot time started after I installed the proprietary Nvidia drivers for the RTX4000 quadro, I first selected a newer one, but them installed the recommended one via the driver manager. Is it possible that I have leftovers of conflicting drivers or the driver manager is pretty good when installing a driver to remove the previous one?
Sorry I am new at this linux life :( But one minute seems a lot for a computer like this.
Here is the blame list:
9.936s gpu-manager.service
8.948s plymouth-quit-wait.service
5.029s fwupd-refresh.service
2.475s fwupd.service
1.080s NetworkManager.service
745ms boot-efi.mount
532ms systemd-backlight@backlight:intel_backlight.service
511ms tlp.service
316ms blueman-mechanism.service
287ms accounts-daemon.service
282ms dev-nvme0n1p2.device
279ms user@1000.service
267ms upower.service
256ms udisks2.service
245ms lm-sensors.service
240ms polkit.service
210ms systemd-logind.service
209ms lightdm.service
201ms rsyslog.service
186ms switcheroo-control.service
182ms e2scrub_reap.service
180ms systemd-resolved.service
175ms systemd-udev-trigger.service
Any ideas or this is how it goes with a dual GPU system?
TIA!
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u/KurtKrimson 3d ago
1 whole minute???????????
That's just totally unacceptable!!!!!!!!!!!!
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u/Tilanguin 3d ago
I mean, not going to die because of it, but I am here to learn, and tunning boot times seems a good way to deal with terminal and drivers on linux for a first time?
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u/sabledrakon 3d ago
You're complaining over a 1 minute bootup? Really? Hit the power button and grab a drink. It'll be ready by around the time you get back... I've seen systems reboot faster than I could take a leak. If it's a minute or under, who really cares.
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u/Tilanguin 3d ago
I care, Its my pc, my time, I dont get why sone people have to spill there personal opinions on a technical question, doesn't matter if I want my pc to boot faster or make it dance the macarena, we cone here to learn brother :)
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u/Giantmeteor_we_needU 3d ago
Linux is booting much slower than Windows in my experience it's expected. I've tried Mint, Kubuntu, Fedora, they all take 3-4 times longer to boot from my SSD than Windows 11. Once they boot they work nice and fast.
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u/bigCountry696969696 3d ago
Windows boots much faster than Linux for whatever reason (if you remove all the startup services).
You should definitely kill all unneeded startup services on your mint and ask another chatbot what to do about the Nvidia. You may be better off with a Linux generic GPU driver tbh, Nvidia drivers are highly problematic and will also give you thermal, power management, and sleep problems on Linux.
With the startup services and driver fix you should get it down to at least 45 seconds. You may need to just tolerate that number.
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u/trifortay123 3d ago
It's because you're using fast boot
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u/MallAgreeable5538 3d ago
How does fast boot actually work? Is it just the S3 sleep option?
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u/trifortay123 3d ago
It saves a kernel state on the disk. It's like hibernation but only for the kernel
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u/MallAgreeable5538 3d ago
So fast boot is an additional thing to that windows technically never really shuts down completely.
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