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I just put Arch Linux on a tiny laptop that was struggling to run Windows 11 after an upgrade, and it runs smooth like butter now. Feels good.
What DE?
Asking the real questions here.
SwayWM.
The DE used has little to do with it, Windows file system performance is simply terrible.
You installed from scratch or used a distro like Manjaro?
From scratch. It's my second time installing so it was a breeze and I was able to copy all my configs over after.