Fresh install: several issues. (Touchpad behaves strangely, performance issues)

There are a number of ways you could do this. The easiest way (on Cinnamon) would be to add it to the “Startup Applications” applet. Just type “startup” in the launcher and it should come right up.

Click + and choose “custom command”, then put the path of the binary or script in the “command” box.

Another way to accomplish this would be to set up a systemd service, which is more useful to be able to do but a lot more learning and reading to get started.

Too bad. You could check and see if a BIOS update has been released for your machine, more recent than this one:

Other than that, you might have to fall down the rabbit hole of searching for kernel modules that can improve your situation.

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