I misspoke when I said 8GB Ram btw. I have 16.
And just did PC benchmarking and everything is “exceeds expectations”.
LOL
So because Windows started up SO quickly, I had assumed I’d installed both OS’ on my SDD.
Nope! Both were on the HDD.
Deleted my Linux partitions on the HDD, popped Debian on the SDD, KDE starts in 3 seconds.
Still very strange to me that KDE took almost 3x than Windows on the HDD though…
In my defence I was doing this wipe and reinstall at like midnight in the middle of the worst autistic meltdown I’ve had in living memory. He can install his operating system on the wrong harddrive, as a little treat.
thank you no-one for laughing at me for doing computer wrong 🥺 
@james doing computer wrong is a rite of passage.