Published May 6, 2026, 12:00 PM EDT Rob LeFebvre is an editor and writer focusing on consumer and enterprise technologies for a broad range of outlets. He’s been writing online for more than 15 years; before that he was a special educator for kids with severe disabilities. Rob has been an Editorial Director at Lifewire, a news writer at Engadget, and a senior contributor at Cult of Mac. He's written about PCs, Macs, mobile phones, and games, created newsrooms from the ground up, and has extensive experience reviewing hardware, software, and games across his career.  I've got an older HP Pavilion laptop that runs ZorinOS , but it always feels a little sluggish after boot. The desktop appears fast enough, but it takes a while to feel less poky in the first minute or two after login. Like there's a bunch of stuff going on in the background making launching apps feel slower than it should.…