Hi there, On Friday, 23 December 2022 01:40:18 CET Dave Close wrote: [...] > The only difference I've found thus far is that the slower one does not > have a swap partition. Any suggestions for what else I can check, and > hopefully fix, will be appreciated. [...] You could try swapping SSDs and see whether these delays still happen on the "other" hardware. I would suspect some kind of misconfiguration on the KDE system. 20 second delays could be some kind of network timeout for example. On my Kubuntu 22.04 box I don't see noticeable delays when starting applications: > $ time dolphin > > real 0m0.665s > user 0m0.240s > sys 0m0.077s > $ time kcalc > > real 0m0.547s > user 0m0.116s > sys 0m0.034s (probably 200-300ms of these "real" numbers is me reacting slowly to the window popping up and pressing ALT-F4...) Cheers, Patrick.