[ale] Suggestion for a Good Linux/Desktop

[Bob]

Hi David,

I agree.

If mint freezes, I usually have too many applications open along with 
too many tabs open in my browswer, and there is hardly any available 
memory.

--Bob

On 2020-10-20 2:44 p.m., David Jackson via Ale wrote:
> 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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