Hi All,

thought I would give fedora 25 a try as my Mint installation was due for an upgrade anyhow. All I can say is wow!

- all hardware recognised. I even found hardware I never knew I had!!! I was wondering why the screen was flipping 180° intermittently, thought it was something to do with the graphics driver...... turns out I have an accelerometer in the laptop!! This was never recognised by ubuntu/mint.
- when linking the laptop up to the tv via hdmi, the video and audio link is immediately available. With Umintu I had to shut down thee laptop and restart with the HDMI cable plugged in and the tv switched on!
- bluetooth just works, no more fiddling around trying to get my bluetooth speaker to connect, blueman, bluemon, blueberry...... the stock bluetooth gui and pre-installed packages just work fine!

the only thing which is bothering me is the boot speed. Almost 40 seconds to get to the login screen, after logging in another 20 seconds to get to the cinnamon desktop.

Is this boot speed normal? If not, could anyone give me some advise to speed up the boot.

Many thanks in advance
Martin

Run "systemd-analyze" - then "systemd-analyze blame".
Should give you some ideas. I think I had to remove sendmail, but it was a while ago. Fedora isn't amongst the fastest booters, but I try not to boot too often.

hi,

here the info:

Startup finished in 2.561s (kernel) + 4.184s (initrd) + 59.929s (userspace) = 1min 6.676s

26.545s plymouth-quit-wait.service
16.746s systemd-journal-flush.service
10.645s dev-mapper-fedora\x2droot.device
10.265s systemd-udev-settle.service
10.159s lvm2-monitor.service
6.132s firewalld.service
6.128s libvirtd.service
6.120s accounts-daemon.service
5.145s ModemManager.service
3.845s lvm2-pvscan@8:3.service
3.530s abrtd.service
3.200s polkit.service
2.910s systemd-logind.service
2.752s lm_sensors.service
2.422s systemd-udevd.service
2.233s chronyd.service
2.216s rtkit-daemon.service
2.212s switcheroo-control.service
2.180s packagekit.service
2.047s systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-8F9E\x2dF006.service
1.834s systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
1.779s proc-fs-nfsd.mount
1.734s gssproxy.service

hopefully someone can help!

I've not tried Fedora©®™ now for many, many years. RHEL 6 was my first distro but since seemed updating and grading was best to reinstall???

netinst and never looked back. Have fun, gnU!

Still thanks to Red Hat IMHO...

on a Lenovo i7 laptop w/ssd, fedora 24 and Xfce, it took 29 seconds from power on to desktop. 8 seconds to get through POST & grub menu, about 12 seconds to login prompt, another 9 seconds to get the desktop.

I know Fedora has "lightweight desktops" and I think they do lighter "spins" too...

Gnome is surprisingly too hefty for my now 5 year old system, especially with an AMD chip. However, I've had nigh zero problems with XFCE.

That said, it still takes almost a minute to boot up. I just accepted that as a fact of an older system with Fedora on it. FWIW, it's not like Windows was *that* much better.