I have a 10 year old HP laptop. Despite a fresh install of 22.04 LTS, it takes minutes to boot before I can log-in, Firefox takes minutes before I can type (I can see pages, but can't use the browser), and some sites e.g. Facebook, run really slow. I've also tried in Chromium.
Here's the spec from Settings -> About
I'm wondering if the laptop is just too old a variety to deal with the way some things are done these days?
Or maybe there are some things I can do to improve this?
Following suggestion of @user535733, output of free -h when system running ok:
output of free -h when running poorly straight after reboot:
Following suggestion of @user-whose-name-i-can't-see-when editing, output of `top as soon as I can open a terminal after logging in (about 30 seconds after login, 2.5 minutes after powering up the machine):
And output of topafter waiting for machine to calm down, then opening Firefox:
So, yeah, there seems to be alot of waiting for the disk ...