Hey I’m very new to Linux and don’t super know what I’m doing, so you’re gonna have to bear with me.

I recently installed Kubuntu on an old desktop my dad gave me, it’s a Dell XPS 8900 with an i7 6700, a GeForce GTX 745, and he upgraded it to have a whopping 64 gigabytes of ram because it kept slowing down and he thought that would fix the issue lol. He upgraded recently so now it’s mine.

Originally I wanted to run Linux Mint but i could never finish the install process because it kept running into some kind of error with the bios, and would freeze there forever even when I let it sit for hours and hours, so I went with Kubuntu since I figured it would be a pretty similar experience? Maybe I’m wrong in that but I figured since Mint is Ubuntu based I’d just go with Ubuntu, but I prefer KDE Plasma so Kubuntu it is.

Kubuntu installed without issue everything was fine and it seemed great, but then I realized every time I booted the machine my main drive would have nearly 100 gigs of extra storage being taken up. I had no idea where it was coming from, I thought I somehow got a virus or something even though it was a fresh install, I had hardly added anything but a web browser and Vencord from the discover store. But after I did some digging I discovered it was the kernlog and syslog files, which were each nearly 350 gigs in size and continued growing the whole time the system was on. I opened them and they were both just full of this error over and over again,

“pcieport 0000:1c.0: pcie bus error: severity=correctable, type= physical layer” “AER: Correctable error message received from physical 0000:00:1c.0”

Probably millions of times honestly for it to be that large in size. I have no idea what to do about this, I tried updating drivers, reseating components, but nothing really seems to be working. Does anyone have any ideas? I apologize if it’s an easy fix but I’m literally brand new to this and don’t know anything lol.