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

@james

Nah, nah, nope, you will get no grief from me.

I went with KDE Plasma, just because I was wanting the middle-button-paste behavior of the Konsole terminal.

Really, that was the reason.

And you are sure right, KDE starts up slowly!

LOL

So because Windows started up SO quickly, I had assumed I’d installed both OS’ on my SDD.

Nope! Both were on the HDD.

Deleted my Linux partitions on the HDD, popped Debian on the SDD, KDE starts in 3 seconds.

Still very strange to me that KDE took almost 3x than Windows on the HDD though…

@james This is just a guess, but it might be because of fast startup in windows. With fast startup enabled (which I think it is by default), windows hibernates instead of shutting down.

In my defence I was doing this wipe and reinstall at like midnight in the middle of the worst autistic meltdown I’ve had in living memory. He can install his operating system on the wrong harddrive, as a little treat.

thank you no-one for laughing at me for doing computer wrong 🥺

@james doing computer wrong is a rite of passage.

@arnaught @Seirdy I don’t thiiiiink I have fast start up turned on. But I’ll take a look.