@james Curious to know which distro you were using Budgie on? Solus is probably the fastest experience for Budgie, I can't say I've ever had that particular issue.
@james Ah, yeah I don't have any experience using Budgie on Debian so I can't speak to the experience there.
@michael it turned out i had installed it on my HDD instead of my SDD. facepalm. things are much faster now.