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just my 2 cents worth...1st 30 seconds?...i would say its the update manager connecting to find LM updates...they do not do any "telemetry" spying like M$ does...DAMIEN

you might want to run these commands in terminal after removing the "24" kernel as well...DAMIEN Kernel Cleanup after Deletion do these one at a time, dont worry if the first one says error etc...just means nothing is there is all... sudo apt autoremove dpkg -l | grep '^rc' | awk '{print $2}' | sudo...

aaaahhhh a budding 5th columnist in the making...lol...DAMIEN

hi eric...well its 5:20 am MDT here in alamogordo nm and im up and running (crawling) lol with my coffee in hand with cats looking for their wet food breakfast...just a normal morning for an old fossil lol...your specs really look quite good...your running a rather sophisticated system more above av...

Well ive gotta get off this thing for a while...may be able to get back later on tonight...here are the cleanup commands for left over residue from that removed kernel...DAMIEN...( dont forget to reboot a few times after you run those commands) 12.937s seconds is darn good Do these one at a time, do...

BLASPHEMY...lol...DAMIEN

ok eric...have you done the last one yet that i want to look at before i give ya some commands to clean up the deleted kernel...the one i need to see is... systemd-analyze...no blame on the end this time...its just going to show me the actual boot time...it will look something like this... damien@da...

and i guess you wouldnt need a cell phone if your running a 2 meter portable off the repeaters...lol...DAMIEN

ps mine expired eons ago...formerly ka1-owp

ok...im back too...lets see systemd-analyze blame and then just a systemd-analyze and see what we got now...DAMIEN

use this link im providing here...but tell me a little of your specs...3 different versions to choose from...tell me CPU, RAM and hard drive as well as 32 bit or 64 bit system please and i will help direct you to the best to use for your hardware...and what mintbean said...just choose any one...DAMI...

i would also like to see another new... inxi -Fxz ...and after that a... systemd-analyze ...this last one will give me an actual boot time...DAMIEN

ps good to meet you too...lol

i thought so...you need to take that drive out when your installing/upgrading etc...open "files" and on the left side you will see the usb drive in the list...right click on it and pick safely remove drive or whatever it says then reboot and get back to me here and then run that systemd-analyze blam...

do you have any other drives other than the main internal drive attached at this moment?

please run this command in terminal and post it here...DAMIEN

systemd-analyze blame

did you do a clean install or a system upgrade install? and did you make backups of what you want to keep?...DAMIEN

ok...its the update that was the bootup killer for you...a known problem is kernel 4.15.0-24...there may be more issues but that might be the main one, so this is a good place to start...lets revert to kernel 4.15.0-23 and DO NOT re-install any kernel that is in the 4.15.0-24 series...wait for at le...

what you need to do is to reboot your system and press either the shift key or the esc key during the reboot in order to get into the "grub" boot loader...once there you need to click on the "4.15.0-23 generic" kernel and then reboot...thereafter, click on the update manager and then click onto the ...

you are more than welcome...have fun in "olde blighty"...DAMIEN

it looks like you followed flemurs instructions ok and the boot up times for the other components in your system look ok as far as i can see...one other thing you can do is delete any extra residue from the kernel deletion of the 4.15.0-24 kernel...with the following commands... sudo apt autoremove ...

can you post here the results of systemd-analyze blame as flemur has suggested?...DAMIEN

edit: forgot the "d" in system...sorry