[nine_k]

I wonder why booting a computer may be a concern for a desktop user at all. With hibernation being polished enough (on Linux and elsewhere), one mostly puts a computer to sleep, then continues exactly where left.

Boot times may be important for cloud instances, though; the faster you can spawn more nodes to accommodate a load spike, the better. But cloud instances are usually pretty stripped-down, and often get spawned form pre-configured images where much of the discoverable stuff is hardcoded.