I’m using an XPS 13 9350 with 16GB of RAM and the Intel Graphics 540. I am using Fedora KDE spin. When I am using computer, either randomly or when I start a program, my computer will slow down and quickly fully freeze. In this state, the only thing I can do is shut it down. Is there any way to make it so that a program is killed, or something else that doesn’t fully stop my system?

  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Personally, I wouldn’t accept this as a normal thing to work around.

    You likely have a hardware issue, or a hardware incompatibility. Everyone talking about low RAM is forgetting that the kernel is going to kill a non-required process if it eats up memory and is causing a panic. Most of the time you’ll get crashes, not freezes.

    Does it always freeze when beginning work? Run software to do full checks on RAM (memtester) and disk (smartctl long test), as those are the most likely culprits.

    If that doesn’t work, and you don’t have spares to try, maybe dual-boot or USB boot Debian to try a different OS with a different build structure to rule out incompatibility.