How old is the drive and how is it formatted? You’re gonna want ExFAT for the best performance with large files.
Try wiping the drive, creating a new GPT partition table and formatting with ExFAT. If that doesn’t improve performance, then it may just be the flash drive. I find that the drives that advertise their speeds tend to be faster than the drives that don’t, and I get the BEST performance from SSDs. I now have a pile of old flash drives that I no longer use because they are so slow.
Yes. Use faster USB drives. If your computer has USB3 ports, buy USB3-specific flash drives.
Better yet, skip flash drives altogether and get a compact USB SSD. They come is the same small sizes as a flash drive and are MUCH faster.
This. I’ve gone ‘round the Cape of Distros and found myself reinstalling Linux Mint on all of my older computers because it just fucking WORKS without complaint or issue.
Using Fedora on my newer laptop, but for a distro that you don’t have to think about at all and just USE, Mint is hard to beat.
And that’s why I don’t use PPAs, but you do you, I guess…
Inviting world leaders to check out his merch store.
This is what has become of America.
Fuck Israel
Also, large flash drives (128GB, 256GB) tend to be a LOT faster than small ones. And as the drive nears it’s capacity, write speeds will start to slow down dramatically.