Will do on the thread for LO.
It's definitely something around LO with images and PDF's as MATE works absolutely perfect if just creating a Writer doc, Calc spreadsheet or Impress presentation (only really tried 1 on Impress tho). Using Google Docs, Sheets and Slides now as our workaround.
I do notice that when I open up Chrome or FF the load on the system is very high, settles down from 98% quickly to reasonable levels which we can work with.
Next step is to try USB live to see if I can replicate it. Also thinking that a fresh install of 19.10 might do the trick. Any thoughts on that?
As always, thanks in advance for the assistance and I will start a new LO thread too.