I just had to reboot because clicking anything in the browser randomly started sending the CPU utilisation to higher 70s, which was triggering the fans to spin at full power.
Then I ran a game on Steam and Steam said it’s running, but it was nowhere to be found. Had to reboot again.
Both of these happened completely randomly after I changed nothing, just browsing the web.
Probably updating the client in the background, for some reason this is the default updating behavior on Linux unlike the visible progress bar on Windows
Do you get a window? If so, you can xkill (or the Wayland equivalent, if you compositor provides one).
Failing that, yeah, it can be quite difficult to identify the right proc to kill. Sometimes showing the process “tree” and the full “command line” can help.
Stable means unchanging. Stable does not mean free of faults.
I don’t know anything about MS Windows anymore, but I tend to doubt it’s as stable as Debian Stable, since we are constantly getting accused of being “too old” because of our stability policies.
More stable, haha. I was just randomly surfing around and my computer goes to sleep and can’t wake up.
Also randomly, my computer won’t go into sleep mode when I close my laptop. It works about 90% of the time, but that 10% is when I pull my laptop out of my laptop bag and my computer is on fire and fans full blast trying to cool itself. The OS came from IBM installed.
I’m personally downvoting because it’s also an issue in windows as well. So it’s completely incorrect and unfair to complain that linux is “less stable” when the same exact issue is a problem on windows…
It’s been an issue for years. And I’d argue that windows supporting this “new” shit standard probably makes new laptops suck for linux as well as vendors rip out older sleep states that linux uses that modern windows doesn’t.
Yes, Linux is king. More stable, better hardware utilization. Better customizability. Linux just makes more sense.
Wellllll, I wouldn’t go that far.
I just had to reboot because clicking anything in the browser randomly started sending the CPU utilisation to higher 70s, which was triggering the fans to spin at full power.
Then I ran a game on Steam and Steam said it’s running, but it was nowhere to be found. Had to reboot again.
Both of these happened completely randomly after I changed nothing, just browsing the web.
Probably updating the client in the background, for some reason this is the default updating behavior on Linux unlike the visible progress bar on Windows
You dont have to restart your Computer, you can also just kill a task.
To make it simple use something like mission center
Steam does something weird when running a Windows game via Proton. I haven’t figured out which task to kill to kill a game it’s running.
Do you get a window? If so, you can xkill (or the Wayland equivalent, if you compositor provides one).
Failing that, yeah, it can be quite difficult to identify the right proc to kill. Sometimes showing the process “tree” and the full “command line” can help.
Beat of luck!
There are many different ways to define “stable”. Linux is better in some, windows might be better in others.
Stable means unchanging. Stable does not mean free of faults.
I don’t know anything about MS Windows anymore, but I tend to doubt it’s as stable as Debian Stable, since we are constantly getting accused of being “too old” because of our stability policies.
More stable, haha. I was just randomly surfing around and my computer goes to sleep and can’t wake up.
Also randomly, my computer won’t go into sleep mode when I close my laptop. It works about 90% of the time, but that 10% is when I pull my laptop out of my laptop bag and my computer is on fire and fans full blast trying to cool itself. The OS came from IBM installed.
Of course this gets downvoted… Linux shilling is insane
I’m personally downvoting because it’s also an issue in windows as well. So it’s completely incorrect and unfair to complain that linux is “less stable” when the same exact issue is a problem on windows…
https://www.spacebar.news/windows-pc-sleep-broken/
It’s been an issue for years. And I’d argue that windows supporting this “new” shit standard probably makes new laptops suck for linux as well as vendors rip out older sleep states that linux uses that modern windows doesn’t.