{"id":219437,"date":"2026-03-03T10:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/linux-pc-booting-slowly-this-handy-tool-shows-why-in-seconds-heres-how\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T11:25:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:25:09","slug":"linux-pc-booting-slowly-this-handy-tool-shows-why-in-seconds-heres-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/03\/linux-pc-booting-slowly-this-handy-tool-shows-why-in-seconds-heres-how\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux PC booting slowly? This handy tool shows why in seconds &#8211; here&#8217;s how"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/linux-boot-time-systemd-analyze\/\">Linux PC booting slowly? This handy tool shows why in seconds &#8211; here&#8217;s how<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/linux-boot-time-systemd-analyze\/\">https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/linux-boot-time-systemd-analyze\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-03 10:52:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.zdnet.com\">www.zdnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <span class=\"c-shortcodeImage_credit g-outer-spacing-top-xsmall u-block\">Evgeniy Lyachenko\/iStock \/ Getty Images Plus<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Follow ZDNET:\u00a0<span class=\"c-commerceLink\"><span>Add us as a preferred source<\/span><\/span>\u00a0on Google.<\/p>\n<h3>ZDNET&#8217;s key takeaways<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>If your Linux machine&#8217;s boot is slow, try this tool.<\/li>\n<li>Systemd-analyze offers several options to help.<\/li>\n<li>Any systemd-supporting Linux machine will have these.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Linux has a ton of handy tools that can help you uncover things that are right, things that are wrong, and everything in between. You can customize it to your heart&#8217;s content or leave it as-is.<\/p>\n<p>At some point, you might get curious as to what&#8217;s slowing down the boot time of your Linux machine. Although that might sound like a difficult task, you&#8217;d be surprised at how easy it actually is. In fact, Linux has a built-in tool to help you do just that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also:\u00a0How to choose the right Linux desktop distribution for you<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If your Linux distribution uses the systemd init system, you already have what you need to solve the problem of slow boot times, and I&#8217;m going to show you how to use the tool.<\/p>\n<h2>systemd-analyze<\/h2>\n<p>The tool in question is a part of the systemd init system, and it&#8217;s called systemd-analyze. What this tool does is analyze and debug the initialization manager in Linux.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you were to simply run the command systemd-analyze, you&#8217;d see results that look something like this:<\/p>\n<p>Startup finished in 6.669s (kernel) + 30.368s (userspace) = 37.037s<br \/>graphical.target reached after 27.479s in userspace<\/p>\n<p>As you can see above, the total startup time for one of my machines is 37.037 seconds, with 6.669s for the kernel and 30.368 seconds for userspace apps. Then there&#8217;s the graphical.target reached (the login screen) at 27.479 seconds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also:\u00a0<\/strong><strong>8 things you can do with Linux that you can&#8217;t do with MacOS or Windows<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s some pretty good information, but it doesn&#8217;t really help us much. The good news is that there are some important options we can use to help us figure out what&#8217;s going on.<\/p>\n<h3>blame<\/h3>\n<p>The first option is blame, which lists all systemd unit files, showing the time each unit took to initialize during the last boot,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/linux-boot-time-systemd-analyze\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linux PC booting slowly? 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