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After upgrading to Ubuntu 20.10 the system is slow

Asked by Alexandru Vasiu

Hi,

I upgraded my laptop (Thinkpad T590 with Nvidia MX250) to Ubuntu 20.10 from Ubuntu 20.04 and now I'm experiencing a lot of issues:

1. The overall performance is bad (the system is slow), even when I try to write a command in the terminal, it has a lag. Each app has a lag.
2. The network connection is a bit slower than before.
3. When I try to see a video (or even when using Google Meet), the video is interrupting a lot even if I have 30-40 Mb/s download speed (before this was at 100 Mb/s sometimes).

Is this because of kernel 5.8? What should I do? Can I rollback to Ubuntu 20.04?

Thank you

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

I suggest you report a bug. Groovy is not ready and not stable.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

The only way to roll back is with a clean install and wiping Groovy off. Note that Focal is LTS and supported until April 2025. Groovy is only supported for 9 months....

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Pratik B (pratik136) said : 		#3

I'm facing the same issue, broadly speaking. I am quite certain it is Graphics resources/drivers related, but that's where my diagnosis skills lack. Was a bug raised for this by the OP? How could I diagnose this further?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

Pratik, please make your own question rather hijacking someone else's

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Pratik B (pratik136) said : 		#5

Andrew, my intentions were quite the opposite actually. I wasn't hijacking the question, instead asking for an update on what you had asked for in your first question. So that I could follow up the progress of that bug report. I will also refrain from adding my own question for now, since I have absolutely no more value to add than what this question does.

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Alexandru Vasiu (avasiu) said : 		#6

Hi Pratik,

No update yet. I will try to update the kernel next days to see if it helps.

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Varun Priolkar (varunpriolkar) said : 		#7

Having same issue on laptop with MX150 GPU. Tried both fresh install, as well as an update.

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Jamel Toms (jameltoms) said : 		#8

I'm experiencing the same issue and it's really bad. I also suspect that this is graphics related. And I'm experiencing this on a laptop that has a discrete Nvidia GPU and an integrated Intel GPU.

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