ACCELERATE CORE COMPONENTS

Your distro should be in quite a good condition if you’ve followed the steps on the previous pages. The good news is that there’s still scope for improvement. On the downside, however, the tricks from here on are more involved and come with a disclaimer: if applied recklessly, they can have serious repercussions on your installation.

Track stragglers

In addition to startup apps (which we’ve already pruned earlier in the feature), a typical Linux distro also runs a large number of services. You don’t need all of them and starting them every time you boot your computer wastes resources. Even if you have the resources to spare, remember that services can be exploited and running ones you