Let me take a moment to vent on the garbage that is the dell UEFI firmware. I have an excellent, new machine, an XPS 15 9570. According to systemd-analyze, it

Let me take a moment to vent on the garbage that is the dell UEFI firmware. I have an excellent, new machine, an XPS 15 9570. According to systemd-analyze, it took eight seconds to get past firmware, corroborated by my observations. There is flat-out no reason why it ought to be so slow. Dell makes the absolute worst BIOS.