davidgrenier

I ask because every family member's system I sat next to has been, by my standards, unusably slow. At least 3 minutes boot time, then 1 minute spinning and another for icons to show up. Then opening up the settings menu and everything freezes for 30 seconds.

I understand they have no clue about tidying things up, but this Debian machine hasn't been reinstalled in at least 4 years and I'm pretty sure I still don't have a clue about Linux, yet it still runs smoother than butter.

I'd like to help them but haven't touched a windows machine since Windows 8 showed its ugly face. I could handle myself with Windows 7/2003 but I'm pretty sure I lost it. Is there a commonly agreed best-guide?