openSUSE TW slow - for months

[karlmistelberger]

@mong

I’ve been using TW since November 2022. I started with KDE, a disaster. Moved to GNOME, which was OK other than I hated it. I’m now back on XFCE and i3 (as always). I had a feeling it was slower than any other Linux distro I’ve used but didn’t much care. Today, however, I used Debian with XFCE and bloody hell if that thing wasn’t at least 5 times as quick. Boot time was the same but the browser, terminals, file managers - the lot! was faster. Especially Firefox which is abysmally slow, relatively. I’m not ready to quit Susie yet and I would like to know what I’m doing wrong - it’s almost always my fault.

Hello disaster mong!

I am using Tumbleweed / KDE since August 2016. My experience is quite different, even with the oldest and smallest machine: “I like its snappiness.”

Any ideas?

Presumably you did some tinkering. Try a pristine system first, e.g. https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/iso/openSUSE-Tumbleweed-KDE-Live-x86_64-Current.iso.