Slow loading of my system

[Fabby]

Well, if you’ve just installed Mannjaro, yes your friend is correct that reinstalling the OS and swap on the SSD will improve speeds as you’re comparing Windows booting from the SSD to Manjaro booting of a 5400 RPM HDD.

Please read this:

[HowTo] become a Manjaro power user when you're a wizard at Windows but a N00b at Manjaro / Linux

Difficulty: ☆☆☆☆☆ Remember when you installed your very first Windows, added bells and whistles and then couldn’t see the wood for the trees any more and had to re-install? Well, you’re in the same situation now: You’re a N00b again! Embrace it! I know right now you’re thinking:

Why is this so much more difficult than Windows?

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Whereas in 6 months time, you’ll be like:

Why can't I make Windows jump through fiery hoops like I do with Linux???

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and read the hardware documentation of your machine as I can see 3 ESPs on your system and ideally you should have only 1, but we can’t tell you why you have those or which one is active when you boot the other OSes you have installed (3 in total???), so please also ready this:

[HowTo] make a crash-proof backup in Manjaro for your entire system

Difficulty: ★★☆☆☆ If you follow the tutorial completely, you will be able to create a backup of your entire system not only limited to Manjaro, but also including Windows, RHEL, Ubuntu, … and whatever else you might have installed on your system! Even if you replace your HDD by an SSD, your HDD crashes, your entire system gets stolen, … you can always restore a Cold System backup to an identical system (You cannot restore E.G. a Dell XPS onto a Dell PowerEdge and then expect that to…

before you do anything as that will take a full system backup of all the OSes installed as deleting the wrong ESP will make your system unbootable / some OSes unbootable if you use the UEFI firmware to swap between multiple ESPs (I’m not saying it’s impossible to have multiple ESPs as you clearly have 3, but it complicates matters)…

If I were you, I’d:

• have one ESP with all OSes booting from that on the SSD (/dev/sdb)
• Give Windows 64-128 GB on the SSD for its C:-drive (for a light user up to heavy user)
• Give Manjaro 32-64 GB on the SSD for its / and swap (for a light user up to heavy user) and another 64GB for its /home
• Give Windows 80% of the 1TB drive for its D:-drive and mount that one as /media/data under Manjaro so you have access to that partition from both OSes.
• Don’t allocate the rest and keep it as spare for future extensions.

OR

• Do nothing and know that Manjaro is installed purely on the HDD and is thus slower in boot, but once booted will be as fast as possible on the hardware you have… (I.E. a very slow HDD@5400 RPM only)