How can I copy+paste the output from terminal into here?

    BTO
    1)copy your output
    2)in the solus reply box here click the code button
    3)paste you output. it will automatically be formatted correctly

    Exception to this advice:
    if the output is gigantic they prefer a pastebin link or similar.

      Ok, once again: thank you BRENT for your detailed help and your hint to the sequence of events!!!

      I removed AUDACITY with:
      sudo eopkg remove --purge audacity

      On terminal it needed quite a few seconds (10-20) when it automatically worked on:
      updating clr-boot-manager
      updating mimetype database

      So i can only guess that AUDACITY is changing these 2 fundamentally, when its being installed.
      Finally automatically updating the "icon theme cache", "desktop database" and "manpages database" did not take that long.

      Then i did another:
      sudo update-grub

      Finally another:
      sudo eopkg check

      Drove down the system. Booted again 2-3 times. Booting time back to 1 MINUTE !!!

      So from my experience, installing and starting AUDACITY changed my "usual" 1 Minute-booting-time to 2.30 Minutes.

      I hope this helps if someone meets the same problems.

        BTO So from my experience, installing and starting AUDACITY changed my "usual" 1 Minute-booting-time to 2.30 Minutes.

        Process of elimination, well done. Congrats. I wonder if Staudey 's command (systemd-analyze blame) would have confirmed it? No matter, I suppose.

            Just in case if someone knows further tricks to reduce my booting times, without doing more damage than good, here is the actual upper part of systemd-analyze blame:
            12.428s systemd-journal-flush.service
            4.181s initrd-switch-root.service
            3.843s udisks2.service
            3.704s systemd-udevd.service
            2.884s systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
            2.520s ModemManager.service
            2.474s org.cups.cupsd.service
            2.354s lvm2-pvscan@8:2.service
            2.184s polkit.service
            2.051s ufw.service
            1.922s apparmor.service
            1.623s avahi-daemon.service
            1.618s NetworkManager.service
            1.331s wpa_supplicant.service
            1.310s systemd-logind.service
            1.162s systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-030b7a8a\x2d5be7\x2d4cb5\x2da70b\x2df551541c2e8e.service
            1.080s systemd-backlight@backlight:acpi_video0.service
            1.065s accounts-daemon.service
            946ms systemd-backlight@backlight:intel_backlight.service
            881ms lightdm.service
            861ms systemd-sysctl.service
            833ms modprobe@configfs.service
            832ms modprobe@fuse.service
            703ms auditd.service
            663ms systemd-random-seed.service
            537ms systemd-udev-trigger.service
            523ms modprobe@drm.service
            522ms colord.service
            506ms systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service
            474ms clr-boot-manager-booted.service
            459ms dev-hugepages.mount
            459ms dev-mqueue.mount
            459ms dev-disk-by\x2duuid-0af2cf5b\x2ddb7e\x2d4cfe\x2db3e7\x2d8a9f25c32609.swap
            458ms sys-kernel-debug.mount
            457ms sys-kernel-tracing.mount
            371ms kmod-static-nodes.service
            298ms upower.service
            273ms systemd-remount-fs.service
            187ms systemd-fsck-root.service
            165ms systemd-rfkill.service
            160ms initrd-parse-etc.service
            142ms user@1001.service
            132ms systemd-journald.service
            105ms systemd-user-sessions.service

              BTO 12.428s systemd-journal-flush.service

              That seems extremely long. What's the output of journalctl --disk-usage

                There is only one output-line:
                Archived and active journals take up 88.0M in the file system.

                Also not out of the ordinary. In fact much smaller than mine.
                Not sure what's wrong with it. Maybe one last thing to check is sudo journalctl --verify

                Edit: also maybe check sudo journalctl --disk-usage to see if there are logs not pertaining to your user that take up more space.

                Ah ok, i think now i got it right.
                The output of journalctl --disk-usage
                Archived and active journals take up 16.0M in the file system.

                The output of sudo journalctl --disk-usage
                Archived and active journals take up 88.0M in the file system.

                And of sudo journalctl --verify

                PASS: /run/log/journal/b4469d08f0944d2c94070f38cc3bdcd1/system.journal                                                                               
PASS: /var/log/journal/bec537acd2834eeb993f22de02d6cae6/user-1001.journal                                                                            
PASS: /var/log/journal/bec537acd2834eeb993f22de02d6cae6/system.journal                                                                               
PASS: /var/log/journal/bec537acd2834eeb993f22de02d6cae6/user-1002.journal                                                                            
PASS: /var/log/journal/bec537acd2834eeb993f22de02d6cae6/user-1000.journal

                Okay, seems like nothing is wrong with the journals themselves. Weird that the flush service takes 12 seconds though. Not sure where to go from here.

                  Staudey My journal service was 14 seconds until I vacuumed it all up:
                  8.748s dev-loop4.device
                  7.790s dev-loop2.device
                  7.153s dev-loop5.device
                  6.698s systemd-journal-flush.service
                  6.555s dev-loop1.device
                  6.520s dev-loop6.device
                  5.477s dev-loop3.device
                  5.430s dev-loop0.device
                  that's my top eight. seems the loop devices slow me down but I am at a minute boot or less, so no complaints.

                    Alright, if brent is ok with one minute boot, then i am ok with it as well :-)

                    One more question: i went through the Bios settings today in order to find possibilities of improvement.
                    Intel HT-Technology (hyper threading): On
                    Virtualization: On
                    SATA-Mode: AHCI
                    RAID: No
                    UEFI Boot: Off
                    Fast-Boot: Off
                    Secure-Boot: Off
                    Intel Anti-Theft Technology: Off
                    Drive Lock: Off
                    System Management Command: Off

                    What is the best setting for the Intel DEP Data Execution Prevention? Should it be switched On or Off ??
                    And can i switch it even after my installation is completed, or would this affect the system?

                      BTO lived with more than a minute (around 90) for a long time with an old rig. now with a new rig I'm probably closer to 40-45s. But the old rig taught me a lesson about patience: even though I don't have to anymore, I still press the power button, and find other stuff to do like make coffee or take out recyclables or brush teeth instead of play the game and watch it boot and roll my eyes🙂

                      I don't know bios answers but this commnad shaved 6 seconds off my journal service boot time sudo journalctl --vacuum-size=100M as I mentioned above, today.
                      There's a thread called "housekeeping" that is excellent for freeing clutter...but I can't vouch it all helps boot faster.
                      I do agree with your approach, if you had 45 before then you should be able to have it again. How much stuff do you autostart? How come Audacity caused this and Pavu didn't contribute?