I am slowly going insane with KDE Plasma freezing up every time there is even remotely something accessing my drive. Not sure if I should pin my hoped on Plasma 6 or if I should attempt to move my Arch install over to Cinnamon. Or heck just install Mint and call it a day.
Have you checked the smart data for that drive? And dmesg for drive or bus resets? A failing drive can cause that freezing problem. If a drive can’t read a sector it will keep trying again and again (without TLER anyway. And how much it tries before giving up depends on the drive.) It’s been a while but I believe that will put a process in state D - uninterruptible sleep. Which can’t even be killed.
I have mint on my big rig, on a new Intel nuc laptop, on 2 VMS, on 2 proxmox VMS, on my home file server made of old parts, on another laptop from like 2005, and now on a wyse 5060 terminal.
All of them run perfectly, connect to file shares, automatically find my printer, etc. Not one crash ever, and it all works like clockwork day in and day out. I’m halfway through baldurs gate 3 on the big rig now and can play it remotely via xrdp from the laptop.
If you want a system that works and let’s you get on with life I’d reccomend it
I am slowly going insane with KDE Plasma freezing up every time there is even remotely something accessing my drive. Not sure if I should pin my hoped on Plasma 6 or if I should attempt to move my Arch install over to Cinnamon. Or heck just install Mint and call it a day.
Have you checked the smart data for that drive? And dmesg for drive or bus resets? A failing drive can cause that freezing problem. If a drive can’t read a sector it will keep trying again and again (without TLER anyway. And how much it tries before giving up depends on the drive.) It’s been a while but I believe that will put a process in state D - uninterruptible sleep. Which can’t even be killed.
I have mint on my big rig, on a new Intel nuc laptop, on 2 VMS, on 2 proxmox VMS, on my home file server made of old parts, on another laptop from like 2005, and now on a wyse 5060 terminal.
All of them run perfectly, connect to file shares, automatically find my printer, etc. Not one crash ever, and it all works like clockwork day in and day out. I’m halfway through baldurs gate 3 on the big rig now and can play it remotely via xrdp from the laptop.
If you want a system that works and let’s you get on with life I’d reccomend it
Can vouch for Cinnamon, very snappy and easy to configure, even has an integrated theme downloader like KDE