Agreed this is not the place to discuss Windows’ tendency to slow down over time.
Good luck with your fresh install to the new SSD. If the same issue crops up, hopefully others here with setups similar to whatever you end up with can assist with any debug.
Thanks Tony,
Well I just got the SSD in about 10 mins ago. I intentionally installed Debian 13 like four or five more time and set the system up as I need it. This includes everything from fstab mounting on login for the two NTFS drives, repo sources, nearly 40 other packages that doesn’t come by default on Debian when compared to Ubuntu Mate. I’ve perfected the entire process. Including the installing from source of the a MOTU drivers for a mini interface. I do have it mostly working perfectly on this temp hard drive.
I had an issue while booting where it couldn’t mount one of the NTFS drivers because the fstab dev. was incorrect. AND because Debian usually has a root account setup by default and I oped out of this to have a setup like Ubuntu the system wouldn’t boot after that…So I had to boot Ubuntu Mate 22.04 from a flash drive then navigate into etc directory of the system drive, correct the issue and reboot and all was well. But IF I end up using Ubuntu I think it would have to be 22.04 rather than 24.04. Since I still had that issue with 24.04 I would really like to avoid. But it got me thinking.
The issue didn’t happen on Studio 24.04 with KDE but it did happen with Desktop Ubuntu 24.04 Mate…and it doesn’t happen with 22.04 Desktop with MATE. I’m thinking the issue might be with the DM. When I run MATE in Debian 13 there are no such issues either.
I’m going to have to do more testing I guess but thanks for your input on all of this!
C
Thanks for all of your replies.
I ended up to change to suse Tumbleweed. Reason being : I know my way around !
The next two systems I considered were
Ubuntu Studio
Fedora-Jam
ubuntu can change over to KDE and Fedora comes with KDE
(may still happen 
)
best regards
While Fedora Jam comes with KDE, it can also be easily switched to Mate DE with a simple dnf group install.
Hi,
Glad to hear you found something that works for you, that is what matters most in the end. For ‘market research’ I have to ask if you tried AV Linux at all and if you did why didn’t it even make your short list?
Don’t hold back, I’m a big boy and I’m not made of glass, if you didn’t try it at all then no need to reply…
Hi Glen, I installed AV Linux and was hoping for a dual-boot. The boot partition on my system is mounted /boot/efi. What would I need to do for a dual boot ?
getting that working , I can give you a fairer feedback.
Just forup, I did load AV-linux. My first impression was clouded due to a monitor problem. It was out of focus, so to speak. I did not like the “dark” appearance". On my second go, today, the monitor was in focus and I had a “tidy” impression but still too dark for my liking. That, of course says nothing about functionality.
I found looking at eg Fedora-jam, I could get almost the same functionality on open Suse by piecing together the software myself. And I am running Suse since 2003. I know my way around, just a bit. Suse was very stable till the recent release of 16.0
Whilst I was working in the IT industry, I am not a command line freak.
Anyway, if you could come back to me re Dual boot …
When that is work I have a closer look and let you know what I think. I used to work in sales .
have a nice evening
Hi, thanks for your time, please don’t feel like you’re being guilted into this…lol. I’m offline most of today but as far as the dual boot question there is a full detailed triple boot install example Video on the AV Linux home page. There is also a full optional light theme included, I will post later how to do that, it’s quite easy.
now I want to know it
