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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[-] s12@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I had this problem too.

The issue for me was that my computer had two disks, a small fast one (sata ssd) and a large slow one. Windows had separated itself with the operating system itself and installed programs on the ssd, with all user documents on the slow disk.

Linux can do this too. Put a partition mounted on / (root) on the fast disk, and one mounted on /home on the large disk.

I’d put both on the large disc initially.

There’s a part of the installation where you set up the partitioning. Redoing the installation really sped up my Linux Mint installation.

[-] Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

The way I currently have it is that I have Windows on a SATA SSD and Kubuntu on a M.2. Windows doesn't know about the Linux M.2 but Linux knows about the Windows SSD

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