How to reduce boot time?

8.498s plymouth-quit-wait.service
5.674s systemd-modules-load.service
1.063s dev-nvme0n1p5.device
 719ms apparmor.service
 575ms systemd-udev-trigger.service
 536ms fwupd.service
 510ms systemd-remount-fs.service
 318ms modprobe@fuse.service
 302ms ufw.service
 281ms systemd-timesyncd.service
 254ms lvm2-monitor.service
 253ms modprobe@drm.service
 247ms systemd-update-utmp.service
 214ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
 203ms upower.service
 190ms systemd-journal-flush.service
 161ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
 156ms systemd-backlight@leds:asus::kbd_backlight.service
 152ms user@1000.service
 138ms polkit.service
 100ms systemd-vconsole-setup.service
  90ms systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-8055\x2d8EAF.service
  77ms systemd-journald.service

Hi @milo_panda,

I’ve seen multiple times on the forum that pymouth can cause long boot times. So probably by removing it. Since I don’t use it, or for that matter care for it, I don’t know how. But I’m guessing reversing the installation process here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Plymouth#Installation

_Note Manjaro uses mkinitcpio.

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