My son was running Kubuntu 18.04 on his 9-year-old System76 gazp9 laptop and decided he wanted to upgrade. His primary complaint was that it was taking "forever" to boot up, i.e., about 90 seconds and longer, and that it "ran slow".
One of the problems was that the main drive was a 1 Tb spinner and he wanted me to replace it with an SSD, since I told him my boot times are consistently under 10 seconds. Being a busy guy he asked me if I would do it. Having decided I was getting too old to do version upgrades I recently moved to KDE Neon and their "rolling release". He agreed to let me put Neon on his system and to swap out the main drive. I selected the Samsung 860 EVO 500 Gb SSD in the 2.5" SATA form. The gazp9 was a snap to service. I had to remove only 2 screws to gain access to the main guts of the mobo and do a drive swap. The 1 Tb drive was put into a SATA drive caddy. While the back was off I replaced the 4Gb memory chip with an 8 Gb memory chip, giving his laptop 16 Gb of memory. While the cover was off I noticed that he had an empty slot for a mSATA SSD drive. It is on order. I also noticed that it had a CR2032 CMOS battery in a clip. It is on order as well.
With the main drive now being the Samsung 860 EVO, the time to a working desktop is now 5.3 seconds. Applications just snap to the screen. It is like running a brand-new machine.
One of the problems was that the main drive was a 1 Tb spinner and he wanted me to replace it with an SSD, since I told him my boot times are consistently under 10 seconds. Being a busy guy he asked me if I would do it. Having decided I was getting too old to do version upgrades I recently moved to KDE Neon and their "rolling release". He agreed to let me put Neon on his system and to swap out the main drive. I selected the Samsung 860 EVO 500 Gb SSD in the 2.5" SATA form. The gazp9 was a snap to service. I had to remove only 2 screws to gain access to the main guts of the mobo and do a drive swap. The 1 Tb drive was put into a SATA drive caddy. While the back was off I replaced the 4Gb memory chip with an 8 Gb memory chip, giving his laptop 16 Gb of memory. While the cover was off I noticed that he had an empty slot for a mSATA SSD drive. It is on order. I also noticed that it had a CR2032 CMOS battery in a clip. It is on order as well.
With the main drive now being the Samsung 860 EVO, the time to a working desktop is now 5.3 seconds. Applications just snap to the screen. It is like running a brand-new machine.
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