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Can you elaborate on that? I've never seen bootup on Linux take that long unless something goes wrong (e.g. fsck fails).

What on earth takes so long?

Are you including the time it takes to open whatever applications you need to be productive?

absolutely, gnome boots up very quickly but the churn that happens right after boot slows opening applications to a crawl.

That seems weird. My PC is rather slow for a dev machine (+ a few lowkey games): i3 @ 3.3GHz, 16GB DDR3 RAM, GTX 550 TI, Samsung SSD 830 for the OS. Windows 8.1 Professional. I just took some non-exact measurement (stopwatch) from pressing the power button:

26s to login screen, another 13s from pressing enter after login to having Chrome show me a useable Outlook Web Access.

And I haven't performance optimized anything. Steam, 2 VPN clients, Trillian and Directory Opus all load on login.