Okay, so after fun issues including freezes and scaling settings not being saved and scaling suddenly making everything blurry on my newer monitor.

I:
Switched from lightdm back to sddm
Setup Autologin in sddm.conf to boot right into Plasma (Wayland)

I got a stopwatch out:
After “sudo reboot” on my 16GB dual booted on a 1TB SDD, Debian Distro that auto logs in to KDE Plasma Wayland… with ZERO auto startup items.

65 seconds from reboot to get into KDE.
12 seconds to load Firefox.

🌊

#linux

To compare,

“sudo reboot”

15 seconds for Debian Grub to get to starting Windows
3 second for Windows to start up
<2 seconds for Edge browser to open