Linux boot times 2-3 times than Windows. Wth?

Operating Systems & Open Source Linux
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Hey guys. I keep on installing Linux and have a good times learning lots. I'm not a fan of the boot times though.

*all boot times were found to be consistent
Linux Power On: 70 seconds
Linux Power Off: 13 seconds
Windows Power On: 22 seconds
Windows Power Off: 9 seconds

Linux = Ubuntu 15.1 with GNOME 3 on 850 EVO SSD
Windows = Windows 8.1 on 849 EVO SSD

Linux is supposed to be lightweight/ fast and its on the better SSD. I don't understand what's happening and would appreciate some suggestions. Is this normal? Is there a log I should post for the linux boot to help us work out the problem?

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you should look at grub usally they default to 10 seconds or more and you can cut that down to say 2 seconds. Are you running this on a laptop or a desktop because I remember back in 14.04 they had a wired issue if you were connected to wifi it would take a very long time to boot saying network not found where as if you were plugged into a hard line this issue wouldn't occur.

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I'm using GRUB 2.02 on my capable desktop. My motherboard has wifi but I haven't enabled it. Doesn't even have a driver yet irrc. I don't use it.

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I had an idea. Brb with the results of loading Linux with no peripherals (1 monitor only).

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It was shorter: 40 seconds. Minus about 15 seconds for GRUB to autoload and to display no keyboard screen.

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Boot log.

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Type in a terminal

man systemd-analyze

And go from there. More specifically, you will be interested in

systemd-analyze
systemd-analyze blame

From your log, there is a problem with your keyboard.

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13.156993] hid-generic 0003:1B1C:1B11.0005: usb_submit_urb(ctrl) failed: -1

It took 10 seconds to confirm one of your usb devices isn't working.

23.207184] hid-generic 0003:1B1C:1B11.0006: timeout initializing reports

It took another 10 seconds probably not being able to record the generic device. Not sure on this one.

33.201389] hid-generic 0003:1B1C:1B11.0007: usb_submit_urb(ctrl) failed: -1

It took another 10 seconds with another failed usb device.

38.532638] usb 1-9: New USB device found, idVendor=040d, idProduct=3417

It took 5 seconds, appears to have located the driver for the device, or the usb powered up, or you plugged something in.

I found this article, and I can see you're using Asus.
http://www.pcl-developers.org/xhci-hcd-I-hate-you-USB-3-0-and-Primesense-Asus-Xtion-td5707949.html

Beyond that it took 3 seconds checking your internet, 5 seconds checking your cores, and 4 seconds on your bluetooth.

With this I would try unplugging all of your usb devices (especially 3.0 [blue ones]), just to see if that works. Then I would try to work around the XHCI using the recommendations in that article.

Hope that helps,

Beam

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Try this: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=192969

You should use 

usbhid.quirks=0x1B1C:0x1B11:0x20000000

in your case. This should fix some of it.

I had a problem with my keyboard and Linux and this cut my boot times by 25 sec. It's now noticeably faster than windows without doing anything else.

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Thats actually a misconception from back in the days where it was just a shell on top of a command line. Now that they are trying to make it very user friendly. it can now sometimes be slower

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GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="usbhid.quirks=0x1B1C:0x1B11:0x20000000 quiet splash"

Thanks martlart. That has cut my boot time from 70s to 40s. Great start.

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