Brother, if you ain't using Gentoo/LFS then you need to be growing
tunips in a re-education camp.
The average GNU/Linux distro enables, against the knowledge and will
of the user, many, many services (i.e. daemons). These services needlessly consume system resources.
The following article shows how to control your system, if you don't know
how to already (and you probably don't).
<https://www.tecmint.com/remove-unwanted-services-from-linux/>
Of course, the main culprit, again, is the abominable systemd.
Systemd, and its creators/maintainers, should be... I won't say it.
On my hybrid Gentoo/LFS customized and optimized GNU/Linux I have
only one single solitary service running and that is udevd, but even
that is not strictly necessary.
Check how many services that you have running and prepare for a shock.
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