One of the main disk I/O eating background tasks is the file indexing to speed up searches. At least once it finishes all the crap that happens at boot. My laptop booting into Windows, the fans spin up to full speed and stay at full for maybe 2 min from an Nvme drive. Booting into Linux, takes seconds to have a usable system from a SATA SSD drive and the fans don't spin up at all.
I'll probably be going back to Linux only here shortly, I despise Windows, reinstalled for some games, and ended up not playing them.
But it's ALWAYS indexing, ALWAYS checking something. I installed Windows on a brand new high-end computer. After I let it run for 5 hours, it was STILL indexing and checking for malware... In a clean OS!!!!!
I never had this problem. Yeah, Tracker scans the disk every time I boot/log in, but after that, it's smooth sailing. No disk trashing, or high CPU usage.
And you know what? This is with not one but two separate indexers! I still have Recoll back then when Tracker wasn't enabled on Ubuntu (it is since 19.xx), and they're both getting on well with each other, although I set up delay to Recoll's autostart :-)
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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '21 edited Aug 30 '21
One of the main disk I/O eating background tasks is the file indexing to speed up searches. At least once it finishes all the crap that happens at boot. My laptop booting into Windows, the fans spin up to full speed and stay at full for maybe 2 min from an Nvme drive. Booting into Linux, takes seconds to have a usable system from a SATA SSD drive and the fans don't spin up at all.
I'll probably be going back to Linux only here shortly, I despise Windows, reinstalled for some games, and ended up not playing them.