[Stable Update] 2020-12-30 - Kernels, KDE, Cinnamon, LibreOffice, Python 3.9, Mesa 20.3.1

GT520 + linux54 5.4.85-1 + linux54-nvidia-390xx 390.138-2 = absolutely terrible performance:

  • Firefox is unbearably slow and is consuming 100% CPU, I can barely type this post
  • games are running at slide show speed
  • GUI is noticeable slow(ish), too
    (glxgears reports 400 fps, though)
    So… I have no idea what to do now to fix or revert everything as it was before the update (previous 5.4 + nvidia-390xx). What I tried:
  1. Removed nvidia-390xx and switched no Nouveau just to see if it’s usable these days (it is not - way faster than my current situation, but still, like, 3 times slower than Nvidia before the update)
  2. Switched back to Nvidia drivers (sudo mhwd -a pci nonfree 0300) - everything is slow again.
    Any advice? I’m in serious trouble now, sorry for begging, but I really, really need an advice :frowning: