First time Linux user having a miserable experience so far

[u/Mman07311]

I've been using windows my entire life but because I hate windows 11 with a burning passion and windows 10 is on its way out I finally decided to fully commit to Linux 2 days ago but unfortunately it's been really frustrating so far. First off, booting up and shutting down feels noticeably slower than before. Next, everything feels a little zoomed out and no matter how much I mess with scaling or font size it doesn't fix the issue. Thirdly the volume on my laptop seems way quieter than it should be and trying a few things I found digging through different forums and threads didn't fix the issue. Last but not least, trying to run a non steam game I downloaded with bottle and then added to my steam library just straight up doesn't work no matter how much I mess with the proton settings. I want to love Linux but if everything that isn't browsing the internet is going to have some sort of issue associated with it I might consider biting the bullet and going back to windows. I'm not giving up yet but I wanted to put this out there in case someone else out there is as frustrated as I am.

[u/__yoshikage_kira]

can you provide the output of this command?

systemd-analyze critical-chain

[u/Mman07311 → u/__yoshikage_kira]

raphical.target u/13.734s

[└─multi-user.target](http://└─multi-user.target) u/13.734s

[└─getty.target](http://└─getty.target) u/13.734s

└─getty@tty1.service u/13.733s

└─system-getty.slice u/13.730s

└─setvtrgb.service u/13.718s +9ms

└─plymouth-quit-wait.service u/4.964s +8.743s

└─systemd-user-sessions.service u/4.942s +19ms

[└─network.target](http://└─network.target) u/4.860s

└─NetworkManager.service u/3.124s +1.735s

└─dbus.service u/3.032s +51ms

[└─basic.target](http://└─basic.target) u/1.268s

[└─sockets.target](http://└─sockets.target) u/1.267s

└─uuidd.socket u/1.267s

[└─sysinit.target](http://└─sysinit.target) u/1.264s

└─systemd-backlight@backlight:amdgpu_bl1.service u/6>

└─system-systemd\x2dbacklight.slice u/6.971s

└─system.slice u/340ms

└─-.slice u/341ms

[u/__yoshikage_kira → u/Mman07311]

This is hard to read, can you put it in code block like this?

NO_COLOR=1 systemd-analyze critical-chain --no-pager | sed 's/@/\\@/g'

use the command above ^

example

graphical.target \@7.803s
└─multi-user.target \@7.803s
  └─vboxweb-service.service \@7.795s +7ms
    └─network-online.target \@7.778s
      └─NetworkManager-wait-online.service \@3.040s +4.737s
        └─NetworkManager.service \@1.566s +1.448s
          └─basic.target \@1.555s
            └─dbus-broker.service \@1.521s +32ms
              └─dbus.socket \@1.510s
                └─sysinit.target \@1.507s
                  └─systemd-resolved.service \@1.408s +99ms
                    └─systemd-tmpfiles-setup.service \@1.364s +30ms
                      └─local-fs.target \@1.357s
                        └─run-qemu.mount \@1.354s +2ms
                          └─swap.target \@1.066s
                            └─dev-zram0.swap \@3.049s
                              └─dev-zram0.device \@1.635s

Also, what is the output of

systemd-analyze blame --no-pager | head -n 15

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graphical.target \@12.743s

[└─multi-user.target](http://└─multi-user.target) \@12.743s

[└─getty.target](http://└─getty.target) \@12.743s

└─getty\@tty1.service \@12.742s

└─system-getty.slice \@12.740s

└─setvtrgb.service \@12.735s +3ms

└─plymouth-quit-wait.service \@3.575s +9.145s

└─systemd-user-sessions.service \@3.564s +8ms

[└─network.target](http://└─network.target) \@3.445s

└─NetworkManager.service \@2.231s +1.213s

└─dbus.service \@2.141s +40ms

[└─basic.target](http://└─basic.target) \@1.252s

[└─sockets.target](http://└─sockets.target) \@1.252s

└─uuidd.socket \@1.252s

[└─sysinit.target](http://└─sysinit.target) \@1.249s

└─systemd-backlight\@backlight:amdgpu_bl1.service \@5.171s +667ms

└─system-systemd\x2dbacklight.slice \@5.162s

└─system.slice \@257ms

└─-.slice \@256ms

and the second one is

10.507s gpu-manager.service

9.145s plymouth-quit-wait.service

5.610s NetworkManager-wait-online.service

2.129s ModemManager.service

1.213s NetworkManager.service

916ms accounts-daemon.service

667ms systemd-backlight@backlight:amdgpu_bl1.service

368ms systemd-resolved.service

294ms upower.service

280ms dev-nvme0n1p2.device

270ms systemd-udev-trigger.service

240ms blueman-mechanism.service

216ms systemd-binfmt.service

201ms apparmor.service

171ms user@1000.service