Why my linux mint cinnamon new installation is slower than booting from usb?

Question

I installed new version of Linux mint Cinnamon 19.3. When I tried booting it on USB it was working fine. But after installation it's getting choppy and sometimes hanging. What's wrong with? My processor is AMD A4 6500 on a Gigabyte motherboard with ATI video card on it. I have 2GB ram which is more than recommended.

Answer 1

It seems like your linux installation is using memory swapping to disk space allotted to swap area which is making RAM 'useless'. Even if you got 2GB memory the swap area is the culprit here. So you don't need to remove the swap area on disk, instead you can reduce the 'Swappiness'. By default the Swappiness is 60% on new installations. you can check it on terminal by typing below lines. 

cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness

So you need to reduce swappiness to 10% permanently

Enter below line on the terminal

gksudo gedit /etc/sysctl.conf

A new file will be opened. It's a system configuration file. Enter below code at the bottom of the file.

vm.swappiness=10

Then save the file and reboot your system.

Now your linux mint installation will be blazing fast.

Comments

In addition to this turning off all effects and changing menu layout from modern to typical can free a lot of resources on your system. The system will be then optimized for performance.

Answer 2

There may be several reasons why your Linux Mint 19.3 installation is slower than when you just used the Web installer. It's possible that your processor is faster than recommended and that the resulting installation is than slower because of the USB-based installation requires a lot of down time and does not finish for about 10 minutes. Additionally, the web installer does not take into account some specific Rosellon files that may have been skipped.