On 2/15/22, Thomas Anderson <thomas.ander...@little-beak.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I have Bullseye installed on an SSD, it boots up fast as expected up > until the login screen. > > I enter my login credentials...then, queue the music...just a darker > screen (not pitch black, flickering, or anything bad) > > 42 seconds later I get my desktop.
For what it's worth in comparing apples and oranges, I use XFCE4 and that's about how long it takes here, too. Just have never set a timer to it. It's been doing that for quite a while. The difference is mine actually makes it into the desktop first. Then it takes its sweet time depending on the requests I make of it. Sometimes I can close the first couple packages I have it load at startup (Mousepad and Thunar). Sometimes it takes a few seconds before they respond. Trying to click the Applications menu is a similar hit and miss until after that maybe 40 seconds or so time span passes. Likewise with the eventual disappearance of the "timer" or "throbber" that's visually indicating something resource heavy is occurring in the background. Our two experiences may be completely unrelated. Then again, maybe what we're each seeing is due to the priority each desktop gives to what they load first. Seeing that dark screen would seem the more distressing of the two because a User's not sure if the system's going to load or not until the first of the GUI eventually pops up on the screen. > I do have a Cinnamon desktop environment with a custom theme setup...but > still, 42 seconds? Can that be right? I have thought about using Mint, > but I have been using Debian for 20 years, see no reason to change now. > If need be, I will wait 42 seconds. I've tried Mint a few times. It's a no from me because it won't let me uninstall GRUB without destroying the entire operating system in the process. The releases I've test driven won't uninstall GRUB without auto-uninstalling a massive amount of important packages. That's about User CHOICE, my preference being to try to use anything except GRUB. That CHOICE is non-existent in this case. Cindy :) -- Cindy-Sue Causey Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA * runs with birdseed *