Almost TEN MINUTES to Boot

[oldfred]

https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers...series/4156509
Shows a newer BIOS for this system.

But suggestion for lighter weight flavor is probably best.
https://ubuntu.com/download/flavours
Light weight flavors:
Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu MATE, Budgie
Flavors of Ubuntu only come with three years of supported life (five years applies to Ubuntu Desktop, Ubuntu Server but not flavors)

I had good results with Kubuntu on my 2006 laptop, but with an external SSD.

[bilkay]

Maybe one of the gurus here can explain why the time server would be waiting over six minutes for time synchronization with a remote time server when my system doesn't even have internet access yet.

[bilkay]

My wife's laptop, also Ubuntu 20.04, doesn't experience this problem, and "systemd-timesyncd" does not appear in its syslog. Nor does timesyncd.conf exist in its /etc/systemd.

[oldfred]

If you do not have Internet, then events have to time out. Each event then can take 1.5 minutes, so that could be the entire issue.

[bilkay]

I tried disabling systemd-timesync and now it doesn't show up in syslog on startup, but it still takes forever to boot.

[bilkay]

This is interesting. I deleted boot parameters "quiet" and "splash" on startup (to see where it was hanging up) and boot time dropped to about 2 1/2 minutes with no other action.