Mint takes an age to boot

[Deadly Ferret]

I have a machine which is dual boot Linux Mint and Windows 10, on a solid state disk. Initially both started very quickly, though Windows always had an edge. Now though, a year or two later, Mint takes about a minute to reach the start-up screen. (Windows takes less than ten seconds.)

Any ideas on simple checks I can make to diagnose/try to reduce the start-up time please?

 

[kola]

I have a machine which is dual boot Linux Mint and Windows 10, on a solid state disk. Initially both started very quickly, though Windows always had an edge. Now though, a year or two later, Mint takes about a minute to reach the start-up screen. (Windows takes less than ten seconds.)

Any ideas on simple checks I can make to diagnose/try to reduce the start-up time please?

Yeah have noticed the same ;/

 

[pete910]

Not to up on Mint, however. Something wrong there.

systemd-analyze blame

Should show whats taking the time.

Heres mine for comparison

Spoiler

           341ms lightdm.service
           307ms dev-nvme0n1p3.device
           202ms systemd-journal-flush.service
           191ms systemd-hwdb-update.service
           159ms systemd-timesyncd.service
           135ms upower.service
           118ms ldconfig.service
           114ms udisks2.service
           106ms org.cups.cupsd.service
           102ms ModemManager.service
            63ms alsa-restore.service
            59ms systemd-udev-trigger.service
            57ms systemd-udevd.service
            53ms systemd-logind.service
            52ms systemd-modules-load.service
            52ms NetworkManager.service
            49ms bluetooth.service
            47ms rc-local.service
            35ms polkit.service
            31ms systemd-journald.service
            30ms systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-7ab017b9\x2ddf7c\x2d45eb\x2dbda4\x2d5469df62ac2c.service
            28ms avahi-daemon.service
            24ms accounts-daemon.service
            24ms [email protected]
            16ms systemd-tmpfiles-clean.service
            15ms colord.service
            13ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
            12ms mnt-games.mount
             8ms boot.mount
             7ms systemd-sysusers.service
             7ms systemd-journal-catalog-update.service
             7ms systemd-sysctl.service
             7ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
             7ms systemd-rfkill.service
             6ms sys-kernel-debug.mount
             6ms home.mount
             6ms dev-hugepages.mount
             6ms dev-disk-by\x2duuid-7dd15ccc\x2df8ac\x2d4ed4\x2d94f5\x2d261459d85f1c.swap
             5ms systemd-binfmt.service
             4ms systemd-random-seed.service
             4ms dev-mqueue.mount
             4ms systemd-update-utmp.service
             3ms rtkit-daemon.service
             3ms systemd-user-sessions.service
             3ms systemd-remount-fs.service
             2ms kmod-static-nodes.service
             2ms proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.mount
             2ms systemd-update-done.service
             1ms tmp.mount
             1ms sys-fs-fuse-connections.mount
             1ms sys-kernel-config.mount