So, I REALLY dig PoE 2. But, man, those loading times get to me. I mean, waiting 3+ minutes to enter an area in Neketaka is just not a lot of fun. Including loading the last save I'm well over 5 minutes to start the game.

I'll admit, my machine is anything but high-end. It's a AMD Athlon(tm) X4 845 Quad Core Processor with 8GB RAM and an AMD RX570 (1st generation, 8GB Ram). I'm running on Ubuntu 18.04

What's the deal for eveyone else? Just as bad, or am I the exception to the rule? Any ideas on how I could improve the loading times?

Once everything is loaded up, the game plays just fine on max settings (with a short pause for huge explosions, but that's it).