Comment by Semaphor

> My work computer takes a full five minutes to become usable on the first login after a cold boot, and that’s not even counting the time from boot to entering my password.

Yeah, that’s a misconfigured system. I bet you can fuck up Linux enough to get a similar experience.

I’ve always been using Windows and the only time I ever had to wait that long was around the Win98 times on slow hardware.

After login, I can instantly use everything on Win 11, and the only delay is a bunch of apps starting (that I chose to start on boot).