Always welcome.
When you are next in session (if you are not already), this would be a good time to make the acquaintance of a command that will give you a very broad idea of the performance of systemd in your environment.
Code:
systemd-analyze critical-chain
Mine on my MJRO Cinnamon currently looks like this
SCREENSHOT 1 - WIZARD'S SYSTEMD TIMES ON MANJARO CINNAMON
I won't try to explain all the details but the red figures are the ones that count, that is for the Services.
The green figures, for the targets, sockets and slices are not cumulative. They are simultaneously being timed as they are implemented, and so none of the green figures will exceed the red figure at @
You could speculate from this that it has taken about 27 seconds from the time I have booted my machine and chosen, or defaulted to, Manjaro Cinnamon, to the time I am logged in, on my desktop, and ready to work.
This Distro is on the Western Digital My Book 4TB external drive, and so with that, and with the 16GB RAM I have, also the complexity of my system. my figures may vary considerably from yours.
This command is not the be-all and end-all for who has the fastest system, but the figures can be used as a benchmark, and if you record in say a text file your first use of it, and then your computer becomes sluggish, you can identify bottlenecks that might need some redress.
Cheers
Wizard