Also remember that systemd isn't generally doing this in series, waiting for each unit before starting the next. It's firing off a bunch of units and then continuing what it does. If it were measuring the actual time that a unit takes without including the fact that it's waiting for resources that other units are using, it's highly unlikely that bare
, which is basically empty, would take longer than massive snaps like Firefox and the GNOME content snaps.
Theoretically with a huge number of snaps and slow enough storage media this could have a noticeable effect, but in practice that case is highly unlikely.
Yep, which also explains why a distro that comes with Cinnamon won...