About the linux part, this is a mostly entertainment pc, i use it to play games (not super performace intense ones, mostly some indies here and there), so i don’t really use it for those purposes

Now, while my hard drive may be old, the entire pc isn’t that old, in fact i have an rtx 2060 which i sure do hope isn’t classfied as old hardware, now my cpu is kinda old but really, most of the tracking problems on task manager have been disk based so i kinda scrapped the cpu hypotheses

But yeah, i’ll look into the ssd ASAP, thanks for the help