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New to Ubuntu and just installed 19.10 earlier today. I installed it using a USB drive and have it set up for dual boot. Windows and Ubuntu both start up fine with no problems. During setup it was also incredibly slow, and I set the partition to have 100gb. It would take several seconds for any input or action to happen. For example, Firefox would open fairly quickly but took several seconds before it registered me clicking on it

Eventually I also noticed that it would not let me connect to the internet through wifi. I have 8gb ram on a 64bit AMD processor.

Did I do something wrong and what can I do to fix this? Here are my resources and disk Smart data 1 Smart data 2

Wizzy
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One consideration is the speed of the HD, which could impact if swap is in use. Based on your model HD, it is a rotating disk, and as you use space further from the start, disk speed degrades. Since you have your Linux partition after the majority of the space, you are using the slowest possible space on the drive. This drive itself is pretty slow to begin with anyway. To tell if swap space is being used, open a terminal window, and type "free". You should get an output like the following (this is with 64GB of RAM):

$ free
              total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:       65881252    14549200    48598296      165048     2733756    50491124
Swap:       2097148           0     2097148

If a significant portion is used, then you may be swapping programs constantly, and this can certainly degrade your performance. You also may want to specify what AMD processor you are using, as there are a wide range of processors at different speeds.

Erik Brandsberg
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