On 6/20/19 10:59 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
Except for the time, everything went ok.
Install gsmartcontrol and test your hard drive
$ dnf whatprovides gsmartcontrol Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:10 ago on Fri 21 Jun 2019 12:08:04 AM PDT. gsmartcontrol-1.1.3-4.fc30.x86_64 : Graphical user interface for smartctl Repo : @System Matched from: Provide : gsmartcontrol = 1.1.3-4.fc30
gsmartcontrol-1.1.3-4.fc30.x86_64 : Graphical user interface for smartctl Repo : fedora Matched from: Provide : gsmartcontrol = 1.1.3-4.fc30
If your hard drive is going bad, Fedora will (usually) correct for it, but you will crawl.
Also, you never answered my question about there being any USB devices installed at the time.
If no USB problems and no hard drive problems, then I would say you just had a ton of stuff installed as you suspected. Then again with your experience in computers, you did have a gut feeling that something was wrong.
Still it seems like an awfully long time.
Have you though of upgrade to a Samsung SSD drive? (I would not touch the other brands.)
-T