Linux way way slower than Windows? (lemmy.ca)

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So I jumped ship from Windows to Kubuntu last night, and It's mostly been pretty good. However my general performance of the computer has been abysmal. Like it takes upwards of 5 seconds to open anything. All of my hardware seems to be running at max speeds, so I have no idea why it would be so sluggish? It's as if I'm running on 2gb of ram and a cpu at like 1.5ghz. My specs are:

i7-8700k at 4.7mhz max Amd Rx 6750xt 16gb ram at 3200mhz Linux is on an m.2

Any ideas? This is practically unusable for any normal operations, let alone any gaming.

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[-] infeeeee@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

THe good thing with linux, that it's totally transparent, you can easily find what's wrong, if you look at the right place.

First I would check journalctl, dmesg, running processes with htop, if I can see something wrong, unexpected. Check hard drive smart and run short selft test with gsmartcontrol.

Here is a general troubleshooting guide from arch wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/General_troubleshooting I know you use ubuntu, but most of the commands here are the same on all distros, basically anything not related to pacman should be the same on your system

Ubuntu wiki has a similar guide, but shorter, guide, maybe start here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/TroubleShootingGuide

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