I’m not a computer expert or planning to be. I’m just a computer user, a coder, a gamer, and I think I will get the opportunity to afford cheaper PCs if I use the Arch distro from Linux which is very lightweight and fast. I’ve heard Microsoft forces you to bloat your PC with win11.
In my own experience, runit is much faster to boot than systemd. Perhaps your experiences differ but I know a lot of people say the same.
I agree start-up time is not a big deal. I just mentioned it as it’s the only real performance difference I’ve noticed between OSes.