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You know the saying "work expands to fill the time available for its completion"? There's a similar thing at play here with regards to resource usage.

I still boot in seconds with Windows 10 and NVMe disks.

Wait a few years until it's undoed.

My fairly high-end system with NVMe drives is absurdly slow at booting to my minimal Arch Linux installation's (tty) login screen. And I'm not some anti-systemd evangelist, but it certainly doesn't seem to be helping matters. Once the kernel starts being loaded, it shouldn't take more than a couple more seconds to get to login.

Windows with i5 or less plus HDD with about a year of use (which leads to bloat) is painfully slow.

Yup, I got a relatively new AIO from work for free, set it up as an all purpose media machine in the kitchen, but no one ever used it bec it was so slow, after about a yr of aggravation I decided to check the specs, had an HDD, I replaced it with a cheap sata SSD, now it purrs.