I wrote this poorly last time so here’s a more clear description: Hey all, so I filled my SSD up on Linux Mint and it’s running sluggishly. I deleted more than half of my storage but there’s still issues. It can read / write fast according to my inexperienced testing and I have trimmed it (to my knowledge) but there’s still issues. Loading up programs now takes 30 seconds (even something like VLC which typically took like 0.5 seconds). Loading new audio files into VLC can take 10 seconds. I have checked my system monitor and nothing seems out of place. Also, when the program starts running, it runs perfectly. The computer itself is fast but loading anything new takes ages. Does anyone have any ideas? It’s a new laptop, not even two months old.

  • f00f/eris@startrek.websiteEnglish
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    10 months ago

    It still sounds to me like something’s up with the disk. Can’t think of any solutions to suggest but I would run a SMART health check on it:

    sudo apt install smartmontools  
sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda

    If you prefer a graphical tool, you can do the same thing with GNOME Disks, which also has options for disk benchmarking.

    In the resulting report, the overall health state should be “PASSED”, the “Type” column should show “Pre-fail” and “Old age” values, and the "Media-Wearout-Indicator should be close to 100.

    • jackpot@lemmy.mlOP
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      10 months ago

      ive tried that actuqllt, it said there was no dev/sda. it did aay there was a dev/nvme0. scanned it and it ‘passed’ but i can try again

    • jackpot@lemmy.mlOP
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      10 months ago

      wait i think ive had a breakthrough, all system packages SEEM to run fine but all flatpak applications are effected. this seems to be flatpak related

      • jackpot@lemmy.mlOP
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        10 months ago

        just tested it, vlc system package opens in .2 seconds but flatpak opens in 30 seconds.

        • jackpot@lemmy.mlOP
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          10 months ago

          this impacts file access speeds too, system package opens things in like .2 of a second but flaptak again takes like 30

        • f00f/eris@startrek.websiteEnglish
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          10 months ago

          Definitely flatpak related then. Try running one of your flatpak apps from the terminal, and post the output here; might help pinpoint the issue. You can list the ones you have installed with flatpak list, then flatpak run <one of the listed apps, e.g. org.videolan.vlc>.

          • jackpot@lemmy.mlOP
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            10 months ago

            it took 30 seconds but this got outputted and then the file ran: dave@dog: ~$ flatpak run org.x.Warpinator Gtx-Message: 14:29:03.389: Failed to load module “xapp-gtk3-module” Using landlock for incoming file isolation