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After booting up, almost every app I startup takes 20-40 seconds to load. This is a fairly new gaming laptop. I know it's not the hardware. Please let me know what info I can produce to be helpful. Thanks! enter image description here

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  • HOW MUCH GB RAM DO YOU HAVE – imposter Jul 09 '21 at 14:09
  • I have 8gb of RAM – nthChild Jul 09 '21 at 14:12
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    You have 24 snap packages. They may slowdown boot. Do you use HDD or SSD? – N0rbert Jul 09 '21 at 14:17
  • It's an HDD but a dual boot, linux is running off the internal SSD. Fairly new laptop. Windows doesn't have this issue for what it's worth. – nthChild Jul 09 '21 at 14:22
  • @N0rbert what does the boot slowdown have to do with clicking an app AFTER it's booted up (logged in)? (Not being rude, just wondering how that all works.) – nthChild Jul 09 '21 at 14:26
  • Same problem with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 20.10, on a Lenovo Legion gaming laptop, on a desktop running i7-7700HK, both with >=16GB RAM. Anybody know why this is happening? – Cain Jul 26 '21 at 10:47

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Well if you have 8gb ram then you can install preload

Preload save the sofwares that you use most on ram so that if you click on that next time it will open much faster than hdd or sadd

to install preload paste this command in terminal

sudo apt install preload

and that's it you dont have to do anything after that just use your pc it will do it work after some time maybe 2 hour of use

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  • Are there drawbacks to using preload? If I remove all my snaps and just install with apt will that help things? Also, my biggest complaint at the moment is firefox taking 30 sec to start up. And that was preinstalled with Ubuntu, not a snap. I guess preload would just bake FF in to load up faster. Thanks! – nthChild Jul 09 '21 at 14:28
  • Drawbacks of using preload https://askubuntu.com/questions/110335/drawbacks-of-using-preload-why-isnt-it-included-by-default – imposter Jul 09 '21 at 14:38