A bug that sometimes caused boot times on AMD Zen 1 and Zen 2 systems to swell to several minutes was patched today for the Linux 6.13 kernel (via Phoronix).
While Linux can take a while to boot on old hardware (nearly five days for the ancient Intel 4004), it’s not an operating system known to be particularly slow. Even an optimization made in August that shaved off just 0.035 seconds from the boot time was considered to be noteworthy, as Linux is already a highly optimized OS.
