TBH I think the times of kernel recompiles with your personal settings are long gone. Folks these days just run Ubuntu/Fedora/<pick your distro> and that's it.

TBH I think the times of kernel recompiles with your personal settings are long gone. Folks these days just run Ubuntu/Fedora/<pick your distro> and that's it. Also probably most people don't have encrypted HDDs on their home computer, so another 10 seconds you can shave off. My current Ubuntu boots in maybe 10 secs from power button to login. And that includes the 3sec Grub menu pause.