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Yeah, I'd consider time from boot to login prompt to be a useless metric. You could design an OS to show a prompt before anything else to "win" this pointless race.
Boot to usable is the only one that makes sense.
Ok, one case where boot to login is useful: you want to boot up and walk away for a bit, so less waiting for a login means you can login before walking away. Though, personally, I find RAM training takes a long time these days if you're not waking from suspend, so still think boot to login is moot.
This is important to me. More than "time until login" I'd prefer "time until queue". I want to login before walking away because I want to open certain programs. So if an OS allows me to tell it "after you boot up, open these 3 programs" but hasn't completely booted up, I would prefer it to one that only lets you open programs once it has booted.
And no, configuring so it opens the same programs at startup doesn't count. I wanna choose every time I turn on the computer.
you could almost certainly do this with grub somehow, but yeah I see your point