#Ubuntu is surprisingly unresponsive compared to Windows. Launching programs can take 5-10 seconds (with no indication that anything is happening). Resizing a window sometimes resizes the frame and then takes a second to fill in the contents. Even the internet seems slow to respond.
Some of this might be due to the fact that Ubuntu is running off a physical hard drive while Windows was running off an SSD, but that doesn't seem sufficient to explain it.
I would have expected to get *more* performance without Microsoft constantly uploading data. Does this match anyone else's experience? Any ideas?
@peterdrake The difference between hdd and ssd can be huge. In addition Ubuntu uses mainly snaps these days which can be pretty slow.
Do you have lots of data? Then maybe tracker (gnome) or baloo (kde) are indexing which can lead to io-problems while they are indexing. I have pretty bad experiences with baloo.
How proficient are with Linux? If you know a bit more, you could use top or “vmstat 1” to see where the performance problems come from. If it is io-wait you could install
@nielsk My Linux skills are ... extremely rusty. I've probably got some reading to do.
I don't have a lot of files yet, if that's what you mean by "data".
I do know that I'm using gnome.
Nothing jumps out as egregious when I run top or iotop.
@peterdrake Hm…next idea would be for me to follow the snap-theory. That would mean check if a slow starting app is installed as snap and if yes, see if you can install it as a “normal” application via apt-get. Uninstall the snap, install the normal application and see if it is faster. Tbh here I don’t know a lot of Ubuntu because I run usually other distributions.
@nielsk I'll be on the lookout for apps that are consistently slow. If I find a reproducible problem, I'll explore this. Thanks!
