hegjon opened omacom/omarchy-iso#355, which remains open. It gives verification services separate I/O accounting, avoids unnecessary startup-shell work and prebuilds console fonts, aiming to reach the installer greeter sooner while retaining media verification.
After initial virtual-machine measurements, hegjon reported a real ThinkPad X200 test using the same USB stick: kernel start to greeter fell from 25.5 to 20.5 seconds, followed by a successful full installation. These are the proposer's measurements. The follow-up narrows the expected benefit on that machine, where the unchanged initramfs phase remained the largest delay.
