On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 04:21:43AM -0500, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: > 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. > >
What video chipset? Does anything need firmware - it might just be hanging and you end up with something closer to VESA mode if needed firmware isn't there. > 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. > What vintage machine / what amount of memory / SSD? - and, also, what video chipset? XFCE ought to be small/relatively fast. > 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. > That's one of the reasons I keep using Debian - and why support for Debian-derived distributions here and in IRC can only be either best endeavours / off-topic. They do things differently elsewhere - sometimes better, sometimes worse - but always differently and make their own choices. All best to you all, as ever, Andy Cater > Cindy :) > -- > Cindy-Sue Causey > Talking Rock, Pickens County, Georgia, USA > * runs with birdseed * >