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So through following one little clue after another I finally found the culprit, and it was… me myself. Good old fashioned user error, plus a dose of not seeing the forest for all the trees. Mea culpa…
I almost don’t want to tell you what it was because it’s such a stupid mistake to hang me up for days and keep you busy trying to help me figure out what I did wrong. But ok here it is:
In the settings of the Freeplane AppVM, I had selected 600 MB of initial memory, and 6000 GB of maximum memory… except that for some reason I had unchecked the box “include in memory balancing”.
I can not remember why I did that, I must have been trying something out there fairly early on, forgot to undo it, and never noticed that the tick was missing any time after, until just now.
The way I understand it this has led to the Freeplane AppVM being capped at the 600 MB that I had set for initial memory.
That was clearly not enough at all, so Freeplane had no other choice but to constantly do everything in swap on the SSD.
Sooo I have now set initial memory to 2000 MB and max memory at 80000 MB (because I have now observed that those numbers work well for Freeplane with my large mindmaps), and tadaa - Freeplane starts up and loads six different large mindmaps very quickly, there are no more freezes nor any sluggishness anymore, and even saving mindmaps now happens in under a second again!
I feel really stupid right now. I’m so sorry all of you that I didn’t notice this sooner!
I will pay it forward, promise.
I now believe that Qubes can actually really, truly work for me as a daily driver. This means that I will keep using it and learn more about it, and sooner or later I will inevitably start helping others to switch to Qubes. It’s the least I can do for all your efforts and patience.
I’m sure I will pop back into the forums now and then both to see if I can maybe help out a little bit anywhere with the few specific things that I may have some experience with - like X230 related matters, for example - and probably also with my own questions again now and then.
But the big killer deal breaker issue seems to be really solved now, and I can’t tell you how happy I am about that. I would have shed a few tears if I would not have been able to use Qubes, for so many reasons.
TLDR: I made a silly mistake, it took me ages to notice, the issue is solved now, and I am super super grateful for all of your support that got me here!
I hope you have a wonderful day (and if not, that you’ll kick butt anyway)!
Catch you another time again 