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@kamen When the system is stuck, Alt + F2 also doesnt work. Had tried that as well.
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@divinedragon Check what is happening in syslog, there should be some kind of error or message that will help you find the problem.
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Totally agreed.
Have you tried disabling swap? I had SophosAV running too frequently. Disabling that along with swap helped me get control. Plus, tools like PulseAudio and notif daemon going amuck (when I had XFCE and xubuntu desktop installed together) had become so common that I had to uninstall the entire DE and bring it back -
@AtuM I am not against Linux. I think Linux is the best thing that happened to me personally. It allows so much control over the system and allows you to learn the system in detail gradually over a period of time. All fears of commands go away as you start to use it more often and the more you use, the more you get used to things. You tinker little today, more tomorrow and even more in the days to come.
So, Linux is great. I am really not happy with Ubuntu as a distro lately. I have been using it since 2006, and I moved away from Ubuntu after their decision to have Unity as its main Desktop. I always loved the Gnome. With Bionic Beaver, they ditched the Unity and came back to Gnome, and I was the first one to move back. All this years of my usage, I was always able to save a stuck computer and was able to save my work at least before the system is restarted. Its been since Bionic Beaver that I am unable to do that. And that sucks. -
@NoToJavaScript Here comes the windows warrior promptly commenting on every rant related to Linux.
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@divinedragon Bionic is becoming a pain in the ass for me too. It pushed me two kernels without the extra driver modules, which i had to download seperately ( because it had almost all essential drivers ). I had to manually disable kernel updates because of this. Vmware client randomly freezes the entire system and i can just watch it remain freezed until i eventually hard reset it. I ditched unity and gnome anyway for xfce, so that complaint is atleast not there.
Who the hell pushes a kernel to endusers which doesnt even come with compatible drivers !? I thought ubuntu pushes kernels only after they have tested it repeatedly. -
@divinedragon How much RAM do you have, how much do you use, did you test it with Memtest, and do you have an SSD?
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@Fast-Nop I have 16G RAM and 500GB SSD. CPU is 8th Gen i5. I have run the quick tests for memory and hard disk that comes with Lenovo bios and they both came out well. I didnt run the full test since it will take longer(~6 hours) and I dont have patience for that. Maybe, I could run it overnight but I am not very keen on that either.
Another dev on my team just got a new machine. Before he came in today I made two separate USB installers and ...
I don't know why but the default settings in Ubuntu have changed quite a lot. There was once a glorious time when if your Ubuntu got stuck, you could press Ctl + Alt + F2-F6, login to a console, run top command to see which process was taking too much time and kill it, and you can go back and start the process and again.
I remember days(~15-20 days) between restarts of my laptop, because I could do that. But now, my Ubuntu gets stuck, and continues to get stuck for about 5-10 mins, and then just restarts.
I have run the disk checks to see if my hard disk is creating issues, but no issues there. Maybe, there are times when the processes execute some buggy code and cannot get out. One fine moment, one of the processes(probably a browser or Eclipse), starts using too much memory or cpu, and the whole worlds seems to be crashing down.
But, my control to kill it promptly without crashing my other applications, was so good to have. And now, every time this happens, I feel 2016-17 and earlier days were so much better.
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