The fix for me here, on my main PC. Haven’t checked others yet.
I also tried the Oxygen splash, I had a very long-lasting bit of nostalgia there.
This at least might narrow it down to the splash mechanism.
I did see this happening on neon Testing, but it stopped happening fairly recently - within the past week? Maybe something just hasn’t made its way into release packaging?
We have a couple of bug reports and other reports of this, and are actively investigating it. I can’t personally reproduce it, but a few of my colleagues can, and they’re on the case.
This seems to have been solved by the recent updates in KDE neon - at least for me the desktop both in the X11 session and the Wayland session loads/starts without any excessive delay now.
Good to know, and thank you so much for responding as I wasn’t sure this was an active thread since someone did get their issue resolved. Here is the funny part, I hadn’t checked here and I was playing with settings restoring themes to default just to see if it was a theme issue and nothing changed even after reboots so I put things back the way I had them and … now the issue has stopped. lol. I feel gaslit.