cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34255100
Thought I’d create a distinct thread from the previous one asking about daily use, because I really do want to hear more on people’s pain points. Great to know people are generally sounding pretty positive in those posts who recently switched, but want to know your difficulties as well! This way old and new users can share their thoughts, hopefully to inspire a respectful discussion.
A few select games, Notably Watch Dogs 2 and Fallout: New Vegas, probably because of Proton bugs, occasionally freeze my (Debian+i3wm) desktop. My computer is not frozen, but my desktop session is. I can take my smartphone and SSH into my desktop to kill the game’s process (or Steam, which will take the game with it when it dies).
I’ve come to enjoy this process because I feel like some kinda movie hacker.
How much ram you hauling? I’ve had similar issues when voices of the void sprung a memory leak in an earlier build, completely froze my desktop until I nuked it.
48G but that’s not it. I have plenty left over whenever it happens, and running out of memory has never frozen my desktop.
Shit that’s crazy. I guess the syslog might help but I know it won’t give you wine/proton logs, and I’ve not worked out how to get at those myself yet.
You should be able to switch tty to access the system directly from the pc. If you’re unaware… ctrl alt f3 will switch to another terminal where you can login and access things. Generally your default sessions is in f2 (ymmv) so ctrl alt f2 should return you to your desktop where you left off once you nuke the offending pid.
Yes, I am aware, but my keyboard can’t do that shortcut
PSA Don’t buy a 60% keyboard for use with Linux…