yeah, i’ve been running arch for a couple of years now and the only time something broke was when the computer died in the middle of updating

one of my friends uses lemmy

last time i tried it took like 20 minutes, when it’s just around 2GiB.

i thought it might be because the folder is on a hdd, so i tested moving the entire thing to an ssd and lo and behold, du only took 15 seconds there. too bad I don’t have enough disk space on the ssd to keep the folder there, so i guess I’ll just suffer. the files are probably fragmented over the entire drive or something, idk.

you could try using cross-seed to search your library. i recently set it up and it’s been matching with torrents that i no longer have torrent files for.