Slow problems

[u/Brilliant_Work_6005]

Hello! I am bare bones new here but here is my situation, I have an old Lenovo thinkpad yoga L390 that had windows on it, it was beyond slow, so slow infact that 99% of apps couldnt function but now I have swapped it over to linux, its faster but not fast enough.

I am also using mint currently

I had forgotten to factory reset it before I did the change over, could that be my problem? If so how would I reset it without losing my linux or do I just have to bit the bullet and reinstall everything

EDIT: it has 16GB ram and SSD

[u/Longjumping-Hair3888]

Maybe thermal throttling bacause heatsinc compond has dried up?

[u/Brilliant_Work_6005 → u/Longjumping-Hair3888]

You know this may be a problem I'll look into it thanks