My kernel takes 2 seconds, and the userspace takes about 4, mostly waiting for Xorg to initialize the display (which I could probably improve using a hardcoded

My kernel takes 2 seconds, and the userspace takes about 4, mostly waiting for Xorg to initialize the display (which I could probably improve using a hardcoded xorg config, rather than autodetect). The real killer is BIOS though- my FitPC 3 takes about 7 seconds to POST. However, I power it on when the door opens, rather than when the key turns, and one of these days I'll get it connected to my remote unlock button. The microcontroller is always on and consumes almost no power. I would buy a new PC if I knew for sure that the post time was less, but nobody ever advertises that statistic, and anything based on BIOS/UEFI tends to be abysmally slow. Meanwhile the display rendering should be within ~50ms of the measurements from the microcontroller, so the tach and other measurements feel really "tight". (the tach is that curved column of horizontal bars on the left)