[PLUG] Sluggish machine

[Dick Steffens]

My machine opens programs slowly. It used to be that I'd double click on 
a spreadsheet icon and LibreOffice would open it in at most a couple of 
seconds. Now it takes several. What steps should I take to figure out 
what's causing this slow down?

The machine has 8 GB of RAM, a 1 TB hard drive with a 923.7 GB ext4 
partition, and a 7.9 GB swap partition.

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Regards,

Dick Steffens