How to Fix Slow Boot Time in Ubuntu Budgie?

Hey everyone,

I recently installed Ubuntu Budgie on my laptop…, but I have noticed that the boot time is quite slow compared to other distros I have used. I have already checked for unnecessary startup applications and disabled a few but it still takes longer than expected to reach the login screen.

Here’s what I have tried so far :-

Disabled unnecessary startup applications
Checked for disk errors using fsck
Used systemd-analyze blame to identify slow services
Updated all packages

I am running Ubuntu Budgie 22.04 on an SSD with 8GB RAM so hardware should not be an issue. Are there any specific tweaks or optimizations for improving boot speed in Ubuntu Budgie: ?? I would appreciate any guidance or suggestions !!

Thanks in advance !!

With Regards,

DanielCissp

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For those that could help, please can you copy paste the results here. Cheers

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It is a typo, isn’t it? Did you mean 24.04?

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Try to use it on a tower, CPU frame rate frequencies independent…

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:notes: :canada: :peace_symbol:
hello
I noticed same issue on my HP desktop.
So I tried

systemd-analyze blame

regards
Robert

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           ./oydmMMMMMMmdyo/.              xxxx@xxxx-Aspire-AV15-51 
        :smMMMMMMMMMMMhs+:++yhs:           ------------------------ 
     `omMMMMMMMMMMMN+`        `odo`        OS: Ubuntu Budgie 24.04.2 LTS x86_64 
    /NMMMMMMMMMMMMN-            `sN/       Host: Aspire AV15-51 V1.08 
  `hMMMMmhhmMMMMMMh               sMh`     Kernel: 6.11.0-17-generic 
 .mMmo-     /yMMMMm`              `MMm.    Uptime: 6 mins 
 mN/       yMMMMMMMd-              MMMm    Packages: 2877 (dpkg), 40 (flatpak), 27 (snap) 
oN-        oMMMMMMMMMms+//+o+:    :MMMMo   Shell: bash 5.2.21 
m/          +NMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMm. :NMMMMm   Resolution: 1920x1080 
M`           .NMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNodMMMMMMM   DE: Budgie 10.9.1 
M-            sMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM   WM: Mutter(Budgie) 
mm`           mMMMMMMMMMNdhhdNMMMMMMMMMm   Theme: Matcha-sea [GTK2/3] 
oMm/        .dMMMMMMMMh:      :dMMMMMMMo   Icons: Papirus-Dark [GTK2/3] 
 mMMNyo/:/sdMMMMMMMMM+          sMMMMMm    Terminal: tilix 
 .mMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMs           `NMMMm.    CPU: 11th Gen Intel i7-1195G7 (8) @ 5.000GHz 
  `hMMMMMMMMMMM.oo+.            `MMMh`     GPU: Intel TigerLake-LP GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] 
    /NMMMMMMMMMo                sMN/       Memory: 2402MiB / 15770MiB 
     `omMMMMMMMMy.            :dmo`
        :smMMMMMMMh+-`   `.:ohs:                                   
           ./oydmMMMMMMdhyo/.                                      



xxxx@xxxx-Aspire-AV15-51:~$ systemd-analyze blame

5.792s NetworkManager-wait-online.service
1.384s snapd.seeded.service
1.347s snapd.service
1.086s NetworkManager.service
 493ms apport.service
 420ms tor@default.service
 350ms udisks2.service
 229ms gnome-remote-desktop.service
 221ms dev-nvme0n1p5.device
 203ms accounts-daemon.service
 183ms power-profiles-daemon.service
 181ms polkit.service
 179ms avahi-daemon.service
 179ms bluetooth.service
 175ms snapd.apparmor.service
 175ms gpu-manager.service
 167ms dbus.service
 160ms switcheroo-control.service
 157ms user@1000.service
 157ms thermald.service
 144ms rsyslog.service
 135ms grub-common.service
 132ms lm-sensors.service
 132ms ModemManager.service
 122ms nmbd.service
 116ms systemd-logind.service
 111ms dev-loop6.device
 104ms dev-loop5.device
 102ms dev-loop7.device
 102ms dev-loop4.device
  94ms dev-loop2.device
  91ms systemd-udev-trigger.service
  88ms dev-loop0.device
  86ms dev-loop3.device
  84ms samba-ad-dc.service
  82ms apparmor.service
  80ms systemd-rfkill.service
  80ms mnt-4E04F7B404F79D61.mount
  76ms sysstat.service
  71ms systemd-journal-flush.service
  68ms systemd-resolved.service
  65ms smbd.service
  64ms systemd-udevd.service
  62ms teamviewerd.service
  61ms virtualbox.service
  54ms systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-0AF6\x2dD074.service
  51ms dev-loop1.device
  50ms upower.service
  48ms systemd-sysctl.service
  47ms lvm2-monitor.service
  46ms lightdm.service
  45ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
  45ms plymouth-quit-wait.service
  45ms dev-loop18.device
  40ms dev-loop22.device
  40ms dev-loop12.device
  39ms dev-loop24.device
  39ms dev-loop20.device
  38ms dev-loop9.device
  38ms dev-loop23.device
  38ms run-qemu.mount
  37ms dev-loop19.device
  37ms dev-loop21.device
  37ms dev-loop17.device
  37ms dev-loop25.device
  37ms snap-atril-75.mount
  37ms dev-loop10.device
  37ms dev-loop13.device
  36ms systemd-journald.service
  36ms snap-bare-5.mount
  35ms dev-loop14.device
  35ms keyboard-setup.service
  35ms snap-canonical\x2dlivepatch-286.mount
  34ms dev-loop16.device
  34ms snap-chromium\x2dffmpeg-69.mount
  33ms dev-loop11.device
  33ms dev-loop8.device
  33ms dev-loop15.device
  33ms systemd-timesyncd.service
  33ms snap-core20-2434.mount
  32ms snap-core22-1748.mount
  32ms plymouth-start.service
  31ms snap-core24-716.mount
  30ms colord.service
  29ms snap-firmware\x2dupdater-167.mount
  28ms e2scrub_reap.service
  28ms systemd-modules-load.service
  28ms snap-gnome\x2d3\x2d38\x2d2004-143.mount
  27ms snap-gnome\x2d42\x2d2204-202.mount
  26ms snap-gnome\x2d46\x2d2404-77.mount
  24ms snap-gtk\x2dcommon\x2dthemes-1535.mount
  23ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev-early.service
  23ms cups.service
  22ms snap-gtk\x2dtheme\x2dorchis-3.mount
  21ms snap-gtk\x2dtheme\x2dpocillo-7.mount
  20ms snap-gtk\x2dtheme\x2dqogirbudgie-11.mount
  20ms snap-icon\x2dtheme\x2dpapirus-160.mount
  19ms wpa_supplicant.service
  19ms systemd-update-utmp-runlevel.service
  19ms snap-kde\x2dframeworks\x2d5\x2d96\x2dqt\x2d5\x2d15\x2d5\x2dcore20-7.mount
  18ms snap-kf6\x2dcore22-41.mount
  18ms systemd-remount-fs.service
  17ms snap-mesa\x2d2404-143.mount
  16ms snap-poedit-85.mount
  15ms snap-shotwell-7.mount
  14ms kerneloops.service
  14ms snap-snap\x2dstore-1218.mount
  14ms plymouth-read-write.service
  13ms systemd-binfmt.service
  13ms snap-snapd-23545.mount
  12ms qemu-kvm.service
  12ms grub-initrd-fallback.service
  12ms snap-snapd\x2ddesktop\x2dintegration-253.mount
  11ms dev-hugepages.mount
  11ms dev-mqueue.mount
  11ms snap-transmission-100.mount
  11ms sys-kernel-debug.mount
  10ms sys-kernel-tracing.mount
  10ms snap-ubuntu\x2dbudgie\x2dwelcome-546.mount
   9ms systemd-random-seed.service
   9ms snapd.socket
   8ms alsa-restore.service
   8ms kmod-static-nodes.service
   7ms modprobe@configfs.service
   7ms rtkit-daemon.service
   7ms modprobe@drm.service
   6ms proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.mount
   6ms setvtrgb.service
   6ms systemd-update-utmp.service
   6ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
   5ms modprobe@fuse.service
   5ms systemd-user-sessions.service
   5ms user-runtime-dir@1000.service
   5ms systemd-backlight@backlight:intel_backlight.service
   5ms tor.service
   4ms boot-efi.mount
   4ms modprobe@dm_mod.service
   4ms ufw.service
   4ms modprobe@loop.service
   3ms console-setup.service
   3ms sys-kernel-config.mount
   3ms openvpn.service
   3ms swap.img.swap
   3ms modprobe@efi_pstore.service
   3ms sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount
  16us blk-availability.service
lines 122-146/146 (END)

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