A report: Adding Neon's repository to 16.04

[GreyGeek]

Ok, after making changes to the booting services I rebooted by first logging out and then clicked the OK button on the logout screen.
Nothing happened. I clicked it several times and hit the Enter Key. Nothing. The time continued to count down and I waited for it to hit zero so it would reboot. It started counting negatively, -1, -2, -3 ... I clicked the power button on my laptop and the power down resumed.
Altogether it took about 45 seconds to power off.

The reboot took 35 seconds to the login screen and the desktop tool another 35 seconds. So, 1m 10 seconds from power on to a working desktop.

The new blame output shows:

11.972s dev-sda1.device
9.770s keyboard-setup.service
9.073s systemd-sysctl.service
8.085s systemd-udevd.service
8.029s NetworkManager-wait-online.service
5.485s udev-configure-printer@-devices-pci0...\x2d1.6.service
4.634s aiccu.service
3.620s accounts-daemon.service
2.283s thermald.service
2.134s NetworkManager.service
1.848s apparmor.service
1.655s snapd.firstboot.service
1.534s upower.service
1.449s resolvconf.service
1.241s systemd-tmpfiles-setup-dev.service
1.022s wpa_supplicant.service
969ms systemd-journald.service
893ms grub-common.service
792ms sys-kernel-debug.mount
791ms dev-hugepages.mount
789ms dev-mqueue.mount
731ms avahi-daemon.service
678ms systemd-modules-load.service
566ms kmod-static-nodes.service
555ms plymouth-start.service
473ms rsyslog.service
433ms irqbalance.service
430ms udisks2.service
390ms systemd-update-utmp.service
361ms setvtrgb.service
353ms ufw.service
335ms gpu-manager.service
330ms networking.service
326ms apport.service
290ms systemd-timesyncd.service
285ms colord.service
255ms console-setup.service

Nothing too much out of line there so I will leave it as it is. Hopefully it won't gradually increase in boot time as I add and remove apps and updates are applied.
The system-manager I downloaded from the GitHub and installed works neat. It makes configuring and managing systemd services a snap.

[GreyGeek]

The shutdown yesterday was attempted directly from my desktop without first logging off. It proceeded normally and took 15 seconds.

The boot up this morning took 45 seconds to reach the login screen and 35 seconds to present a desktop that responds to mouse clicks.
Checking Blame in system-manager I'm told that the kernel space took 3.6 seconds and the user space took 43.4 seconds for a total of 47 seconds. To do what I don't know. All I know is that from power on to usable desktop took 1m 20s.