That's where those few seconds a year comes from. My boot screen is visible for a second or two when I reboot - this isn't the 90s.

I never wait for a computer to boot by staring at it unless I'm fixing a problem with the boot process. I wander off and come back later.

When I'm on the move I'll power up a PC without sitting down and come back to it later, but never "wander off" if I'm already sitting there since it only takes about 20 seconds to cold boot, 5 seconds of which is intentional delay in case I want to choose something other than my default OS from the bootmenu.

I say it is really nice not to have any problems with the boot process myself.

> but never "wander off" if I'm already sitting there since it only takes about 20 seconds

Ah I take it you don't have ADHD then? For me, it's not the 20 seconds - it's the fact that this time it might be the 2 minutes boot because it did an update in the background. So I'm happy to assume that any boot/reboot is 2 minutes long.

Or he is managing headless systems where you don't see the boot process unless something has gone wrong.