[ale] Suggestion for a Good Linux/Desktop

[David Jackson]

Seems to me you've gotten some really good recommendations here.  But Mint
and Cinnamon are usually very stable.  Sometimes I've seen some flickering
in Cinnamon, which I attribute to some recent experiments in the source
tree, but usually the production branch is very stable.  And Mint runs an
LTS kernel on an LTS version of Ubuntu, so it's about as stable as it
gets.  That combo should be working, so the freeze-crash problem seems
unusual to me.  It seems to me the problem might have nothing to do with
your choice of distro/desktop.  Mate is a smaller and less complicated
desktop.  But still...  Have you checked some logs to find out what else is
happening leading up to your freeze-crash incidents?


On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 7:42 AM Contact VPV via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> All,
>
> I have been using Linux Mint with Cinnamon Desktop for the past few years
> as my daily driver. I am able to get most of the things. But there are a
> few times the Cinnamon Desktop just freezes and crashes while I am in the
> middle of some work. This kind of throws me off. I have tried most of the
> tricks on the LM forums and nothing leads me to a proper solution.
>
> Now that, I am thinking of switching to some simple and clean desktop that
> does not crash on me. I had to use Mac for my work, so I will be switching
> between my Mac and Linux on a daily basis.  I had customized my Cinnamon to
> look and behave like Mac and was successful to an extent that I could
> manage.
>
> Is there a recommendation for a distro/desktop that would help me?
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