This is not my PC, it’s my work PC (which is worse). If it were up to me, I would do everything with FOSS, but it is mandatory to use Adobe, which has been getting worse day after day.
The computer is not the best, but it runs Inkscape and Krita smoothly. Adobe is fucking bloatware.
I have no idea what’s wrong in this picture. Software using some disk and memory? Oh noes.
Nononono, Software using ALL disk and TOO MUCH memory. This is as if it takes all the energy and resources of your entire body to move one hand, so the rest of your body goes into a coma, you become blind, deaf, mute, your heart races and you can’t think straight until your hand stops moving.
If 37MB/s is 100% of your disk then it’s your disk’s fault. That’s not even 5% of a modern solid state disk. That’s also not a lot of memory for modern intensive programs such as you’re using.
It’s not OP’s fault the company gives them a good ol’ spinning disk to work with.
Could it be the scratch disk that’s working on overdrive?
I also have to deal with spinning rust at work and working with large programs (Visual Studio in my case), but I don’t blame the modern large software for not running well on 1990s hardware.