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I want my cake and it to boot fast too.
by taf2 3y ago
I want my cake and it to boot fast too.
- TacticalCoder 3y agoI saw that very often but I run a very lean Devuan (a Debian fork without systemd) and it boots ultra-fast too. Machines and especially SSDs have gone a long way since ten years ago and people think Linux boots fast "thanks to systemd"... But I'd encourage these people to install Devuan just to give it a try. It may boot a tiny bit slower than Debian (for an identical system) but it's still very quick. Put it in another way: the savings systemd did brought regarding booting times in 2015 aren't looking anywhere near as impressive today. I don't even know: on my 7700X I think from boot (since the moment I enter the disk decryption password) to (text mode) login prompt it take about a second under Debian (systemd)? Maybe it takes 1.5 seconds running Devuan (non-systemd)? I mean: 20 seconds instead of 45 seconds may have seen like a bit saving in 2015 but 1 second vs 1.5 second, I don't give a rat's arse. And people who really need super fast boot times in containers shall use Alpine without systemd anyway.