{"id":240333,"date":"2026-05-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/i-turned-off-one-background-service-and-my-linux-machine-finally-felt-fast\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T12:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:30:10","slug":"i-turned-off-one-background-service-and-my-linux-machine-finally-felt-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/i-turned-off-one-background-service-and-my-linux-machine-finally-felt-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"I turned off one background service and my Linux machine finally felt fast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-turned-off-one-background-service-and-my-linux-machine-finally-felt-fast\/\">I turned off one background service and my Linux machine finally felt fast<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-turned-off-one-background-service-and-my-linux-machine-finally-felt-fast\/\">https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-turned-off-one-background-service-and-my-linux-machine-finally-felt-fast\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-06 12:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.makeuseof.com\">www.makeuseof.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got an older HP Pavilion laptop that runs ZorinOS, but it always feels a little sluggish after boot. The desktop appears fast enough, but it takes a while to feel less poky in the first minute or two after login. Like there&#8217;s a bunch of stuff going on in the background making launching apps feel slower than it should. I figured it was just the hardware showing its age, but after some research, I found some terminal commands that helped me diagnose and then even fix some of the issues.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I did so you can follow along.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tI finally disabled these Windows services and my PC is happier for it<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Your PC might be secretly working harder than you are, and not always in ways that benefit you.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"reading-the-boot-log\">\n                        Reading the boot log<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"what-systemd-analyze-actually-shows-you\">\n            What systemd-analyze shows<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>                            &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-turned-off-one-background-service-and-my-linux-machine-finally-felt-fast\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I turned off one background service and my Linux machine finally felt fast https:\/\/www.makeuseof.com\/i-turned-off-one-background-service-and-my-linux-machine-finally-felt-fast\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240337,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.makeuseofimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/05\/hp-laptop-terminal.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-240333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240333"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240333"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240338,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240333\/revisions\/240338"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}