I consider boot time from power off until I can start the first application I want. But I am a bit strict about what I consider slow on modern hardware though.

I consider boot time from power off until I can start the first application I want. But I am a bit strict about what I consider slow on modern hardware though. Why should a regular desktop distro wait around five seconds for networking and NTP before displaying login, or why should it take UEFI 5s to start the OS. I can forgive SBCs running off an SD card taking 15-30 seconds to boot, but not a PC that's significantly faster in all other aspects. I'm not even going to start with all the crap that starts on an average Windows desktop. It's disgusting.