LMDE-Newbie wrote: ⤴Thu Sep 16, 2021 4:09 am
Actually,
Shared is only a partition on the SSD, as I have a second partition for Timeshift on that SSD.
That could be an explanation. I remember having such slow boot with SSD + internal HDD disks. Although the HDD had decent performances (160 Mbs), boot was really slow (~ 1 mn 20) because I set Timeshift to do its snaps on a partition I created on that HDD.
Even disabling auto-snap didn't solve the problem and each snap contained over 1,000,000 files (not really because when a file is not modified, TS only keeps the previous inode link to it and doesn't copy the file itself). Moving the snaps to an external disk which was not available when Timeshift didn't run solved the problem. But at that time I was kind of a newbie too
(and I'm still in certain ways). Nowadays, I'll just
not mount the TS partition by default, only mount it with the Gnome Disks Tool when needing a snap.
It means subsequently
you have to deactivate automatic snaps, but for LMDE4, it's a good thing IMHO : built on Debian stable (oldstable now), LMDE4 has far less upgrades than LM classic, so you can afford a one per week snap + of course extra snaps when kernel or Cinnamon upgrades are proposed but that doesn't happen very often.
Also SMG and SimonPeter were right to
show you path towards official kernels. Mine is not really : it's an official ... Ubuntu kernel which works surprisingly well with LMDE4 although not designed for it.
I didn't do it just in order to build a Frankendebian of my own, but the last certified Debian kernel at that time was 5.10.3 and I had some issues with it. So, I could afford such a do or die try on one of my systems cause there are enough computers at home to dedicate one to a one-month test. I wouldn't dare doing such things on an essential computer as long as I'm not sure.
Thanks for providing the command