Slow to load settings on Linux 25 seconds

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What I’m trying to do

I am on Linux (specifically PopOS) and I am trying to load my vault after opening the obsidian app. The app hangs on the loading screen for 25 seconds every time I boot the app before finally showing my vault. This is the loading metrics:

Obsidian start-up time breakdown

Obsidian version: 1.13.7
Installer version: 1.13.7
Operating system: #202606011647~1784215097~24.04~4974880 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu J 7.0.11-76070011-generic

- Total startup time: 25,952ms
- Initialization: 277ms
  - Boot: 248ms
    - Response: 17ms
    - DOM parse: 106ms
    - Script evaluation: 125ms
  - Electron: 22ms
  - App setup: 7ms
- Vault (31 files): 66ms
  - Configuration: 50ms
  - Reading files: 16ms
- Workspace (4 tabs, 3 deferred): 25,144ms
  - Components: 25,075ms
    - Managers: 5ms
    - Settings: 25,069ms
  - Appearance: 6ms
  - Managers: 14ms
    - Metadata types: 10ms
    - Hotkeys & commands: 3ms
  - Layout: 48ms
    - Load layout: 48ms
  - Extra: 2ms
- Core plugins: 17ms
- Community plugins (9 active): 448ms
  - QuickAdd (2.22.0): 125ms
  - Print (0.5.9): 64ms
  - Dataview (0.5.68): 45ms
  - Git (2.39.0): 43ms
  - Editing Toolbar (4.1.1): 37ms
  - Style Settings (1.0.9): 12ms
  - Buttons (0.9.13): 9ms
  - Enhancement Suite (1.1.1): 8ms
  - Commander (0.5.8): 6ms
  - Other: 99ms

Things I have tried

I am tried disabling auto update, disabling hardware acceleration, disabling community plugins, removing the workspace.json file, and rebuilding the cache but no matter what I do it takes 25 seconds to load. I even installed the .deb version thinking flatpak could have been the issue (it wasn’t).

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I was gonna say some plugin had botched up settings handling maybe…

    - Settings: 25,069ms

But you said you disabled the plugins too.
I am on Mint with a ton of plugins. No issues on deb install.

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Where is your vault located?

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Originally my vault was /srv/obsidian/recipe-vault then I moved it to /recipe-vault and ~/Documents/recipe-vault to see if the folder changed the load time. It didn’t so I moved it back to /srv/obsidian/recipe-vault. I only have one drive in the computer and it’s an NVME drive

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I forgot to mention when I created the post that I am using git so I can edit the vault on my mac. When I open it on my mac it loads instantly yet on linux it takes 25 seconds. Here is the loading times for my mac:

Obsidian start-up time breakdown

Obsidian version: 1.13.7
Installer version: 1.5.12
Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 25.5.0: Tue Jun  9 22:26:46 PDT 2026; root:xnu-12377.121.10~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 25.5.0

- Total startup time: 798ms
- Initialization: 204ms
  - Boot: 185ms
    - Response: 31ms
    - DOM parse: 78ms
    - Script evaluation: 76ms
  - Electron: 14ms
  - App setup: 5ms
- Vault (31 files): 29ms
  - Configuration: 17ms
  - Reading files: 10ms
  - Loading file metadata: 2ms
- Workspace (6 tabs, 3 deferred): 258ms
  - Components: 14ms
    - Managers: 5ms
    - Settings: 10ms
  - Appearance: 7ms
  - Managers: 69ms
    - Metadata types: 67ms
    - Hotkeys & commands: 2ms
  - Layout: 165ms
    - Load layout: 165ms
  - Extra: 3ms
- Core plugins: 7ms
- Community plugins (9 active): 300ms
  - QuickAdd (2.22.0): 75ms
  - Print (0.5.9): 43ms
  - Editing Toolbar (4.1.1): 41ms
  - Git (2.39.0): 32ms
  - Dataview (0.5.68): 29ms
  - Commander (0.5.8): 13ms
  - Style Settings (1.0.9): 7ms
  - Buttons (0.9.13): 6ms
  - Enhancement Suite (1.1.1): 6ms
  - Other: 49ms
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/srv meaning the files where actually in another device?

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No it was all on the same device. On my linux computer I cloned my git repository (my obsidian vault) to the path /srv/obsidian/recipe-vault