Tricia much slower than Tina

[doc75]

Hello,

I have updated Mint Tina Mate (with kernel 5.0) to Mint Tricia. System is still very stable but much slower than before. Hardware details below.
Startup from 50" to 1'30", Shut down from 15" to 30", Browser start up (Firefox and Chromium) from 5" to 15". RAM usage is still very good (25% in not working mode) but quite all applications are slowed at start-up, however their performances are quite the same while working. I am satisfied about general usage of pc with Mint, I just need a workaround for solve this "new" slowness.
I have just tried to update kernel to 5.3 but with no significant result. Reduced swappiness from 60 to 10 but still no results (and went back to 60 as Amule gives me a lot of issues with low swappiness).
What do you think it can be happened to the system?
Another little and less relevant issue: VLC is no more translated in italian after update, where can I find new version translation?
Thank you in advance for helping.

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System:
  Host: doc-linux Kernel: 5.3.0-24-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc 
  v: 7.4.0 Desktop: MATE 1.22.2 Distro: Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia 
  base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: K55DR v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: K55DR v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
  UEFI: American Megatrends v: 217 date: 09/07/2012 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 46.9 Wh condition: 46.9/51.7 Wh (91%) 
  model: ASUS K55--47 status: Not charging 
CPU:
  Topology: Quad Core model: AMD A8-4500M APU with Radeon HD Graphics 
  bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Piledriver rev: 1 L2 cache: 2048 KiB 
  flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm 
  bogomips: 15172 
  Speed: 1331 MHz min/max: 1400/1900 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1380 2: 1383 
  3: 1384 4: 1362 
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Trinity [Radeon HD 7640G] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: radeon 
  v: kernel bus ID: 00:01.0 
  Device-2: AMD Seymour [Radeon HD 6400M/7400M Series] vendor: ASUSTeK 
  driver: radeon v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: ati,radeon 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1366x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD ARUBA (DRM 2.50.0 / 5.3.0-24-generic LLVM 8.0.0) 
  v: 4.3 Mesa 19.0.8 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Trinity HDMI Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel bus ID: 00:01.1 
  Device-2: AMD FCH Azalia vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel 
  bus ID: 00:14.2 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.3.0-24-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter 
  vendor: AzureWave driver: ath9k v: kernel port: e000 bus ID: 04:00.0 
  IF: wlp4s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000 bus ID: 05:00.0 
  IF: enp5s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  Device-3: IMC Networks Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 Adapter type: USB 
  driver: btusb bus ID: 4-5:3 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.52 GiB used: 180.98 GiB (19.4%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Hitachi model: HTS545050A7E380 size: 465.76 GiB 
  ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: Toshiba model: External USB 3.0 
  size: 465.76 GiB 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 366.38 GiB used: 40.10 GiB (10.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 6280.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
  GPU: device: radeon temp: 57 C device: radeon temp: 53 C 
Info:
  Processes: 196 Uptime: 1h 24m Memory: 3.31 GiB used: 1.16 GiB (35.0%) 
  Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 7.4.0 Shell: bash v: 4.4.20 
  inxi: 3.0.32

[Hoser Rob]

Kernel 5.3 may be too new for hardware that old, there's little backwards compatibility in Linux. If the 5.0 kernel worked, revert to that.

[doc75]

I have switched to 5.3 in order to try if it could help, but no, results are the same as before (Tricia with 5.0). I can turn back to 5.0 but slowness will remain. The problem is Tricia with 5.0 is slower (in opening programs) than Tina with 5.0, at least with my hardware.

[missmoondog]

how did it run with the original LTS 4.15 kernel?

i have a few computers here older than yours, both 32bit and 64bit, and all of them run just fine after updating to tricia.

[doc75]

Honestly I haven't seen any changes in performances with different kernels.

[Gillcar]

At first I upgraded to 19.3 by clicking on the update manager when it became available and had to update many packages after that.
But my system got slower. And in the end I did a fresh upgrade from the iso and that fixed it. It became fast again, maybe more.
Maybe that you could have the same problem

[doc75]

I will try, thanks.