Speed up your Mint
Speeding up your Linux Mint is fun! That way, you’ll get more performance out of your computer for free.
Note: are you using Ubuntu? There’s a separate page for speed tips for Ubuntu.
There are several tweaks to make Linux Mint 18.x run faster. Some are quite safe, some are risky. Here you’ll find only the safe ones.
I don’t like risky tweaks, because I think that stability and reliability are much more important than a little speed gain. That’s why I’ve collected a couple of speed tips, that you can apply safely and with which you can make your Mint run considerably faster in many cases.
Those tips are mainly how-to’s that can be found elsewhere on this website as well, but scattered all over the site. I’ve bundled them on this page, that only deals with speed gain.
Note: even though you can apply those tips safely, nothing in life is really for free…. You always pay some “price”. You disable a particular system service, a couple of nice visual effects or some feature.
Each tweak therefore has its own “price tag”. So you should consider before you apply a tip, whether you’re willing to pay the “price” for it.