But by the time the lid is up to reach the power button, it’s already out of sleep and operational…

I remember when windows used to brag about incredibly fast boot times.

Now, my 5 yo gaming PC takes about 30 seconds to wake up to the password screen. While my Linux laptop takes 15 seconds to go from cold start to desktop.

For me I can reach the windows desktop in around 14 or 15 seconds (auto login), for most people the biggest bottleneck is a slow bios.

Linux and windows normally have very similar boot times at least on my hardware.

5600X B550 AORUS ELITE Intel 660p

@Sustolic @VitoRobles 15 years ago initng in linuxmint was doing magic; booting system to gnome2 desktop in 3 seconds from grub. On PCs with intel motherboard this was about 4 seconds from poweron. And moreover, this was on HDD.
Now all systems are bloated and cannot boot in 3 seconds even on SSD