I’ve two PC both installed Fedora 41 KDE Spin and enabled disk encryption.
Discover takes more then 20 seconds to show on PC1: i7-4785T / 16G / NVIDIA RTX A400 / SATA SSD
And takes more then 7 seconds to show on PC2: i7-8700 / 32G / iGPU / SATA HDD
So, why it takes so long time to show?
Thanks!
I saw this article recently, Fedora 42 Boot Splash Screen Looks To Workaround GPU Drivers Taking Too Long To Load - Phoronix Forums
It says
“Linux kernel graphics drivers have been growing too much in size that they are taking too long to load at boot time for quickly lighting up the display to present the nice Plymouth boot splash experience. This has led to situations of the Plymouth boot splash screen falling back to its simple text-based interface after timing out. As a workaround, Fedora 42 is looking to use the generic “SimpleDRM” driver during this initial boot splash screen experience to initially avoid the bulky DRM drivers”
So perhaps it is the bulky Nvidia DRM drivers?
Discover is the kde software install tool, the article is about plymouth splash screen used during early boot. So not related.
It probably loads updates right on launch, and they have higher privileges than the actual GUI.
I find it pretty unusable too, and it should be fixed. It does not happen that extremely on my (recent) laptop, but it is still very slow, as the updates are a real performance hog