Don’t have a question I just wanna get an answer from a guinea pig

Green is Windows Insider builds

No. The effects of a fork bomb are temporary and are fixed with a restart

Honestly same. I haven’t looked at GNOME in a while, there’s some really good improvements in GNOME 45

If it’s a ZOTAC card it might just click when the fans start and stop. My ZOTAC 3060 makes a click when the fans start and stop. It’s a good way to know when my PC wakes itself up lol

You may not have to do a disk clone to replicate your setup. Have you used Git before?

Configuration for most packages is stored under your home folder in a directory called “.config” (the . at the front makes the folder hidden). Taking this folder and putting it on your other systems should replicate most of your setup. (Some other packages, like bash or zsh, will place configuration information directly under your home folder. Make sure you transfer those files and folders too)

It depends.

My personal servers are a mix of the two. I have a Synology NAS that I manage through a web-based GUI. Sometimes I’ll dip into command line via SSH, but not very often.

I have two more lower-power Linux servers that I manage through command-line primarily. They don’t have many system resources, so I want them to have as much available as possible to serve things.

Windows servers I use GUI management most of the time

It does, but sometimes if the system is really out of date I have to update arch-keyring before the rest of the packages

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I’m not sure where to find it if there is one

The fact that Thunderbolt is involved makes me wonder if it’s something to do with the Linux kernel not liking Intel’s thunderbolt implementation. At this point I’m reaching the limits of my know-how, so I don’t have much more to suggest

Hmm. Not as enlightening as I’d hoped. Did your laptop come with Debian?

Can you post the output of uname -a?

Aha! We’re getting somewhere!

A quick Google shows that OEM kernel 5.6 has been reported to cause some form of freezing issue.

The reason I asked about Windows is because I wanted to rule out a hardware issue. My thinking was if we didn’t see any freezing in Windows, it was a software issue. If we did, it would point to hardware.

Fair. Do you still have Windows installed somewhere?

Oooooooof. Okay, let’s start from the basics then. System up to date?

Try to switch to a TTY using Ctrl+Alt and one of the function keys. If you get a text ogin prompt on a black background, that tells us the system is still responsive. If none of the function keys work, we may be dealing with a full freeze

Apollo

Yep, that’s what their design language is called. It’s changed a lot over the years, but still kept the same name

Bonus points if it plays audio