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Colonel Panic

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Re: A system for when you absolutely can't afford anything to go wrong

Had another freeze-up today when in Exton MX and trying to play a game called Swell Foop (not exactly the last word in gaming, but it passes the time and provides a challenge of sorts). Maybe it's time to get this computer checked over and possibly get a new (or "new" refurbished) one.

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Re: A system for when you absolutely can't afford anything to go wrong

Had another freeze-up today when in Exton MX and trying to play a game called Swell Foop (not exactly the last word in gaming, but it passes the time and provides a challenge of sorts). Maybe it's time to get this computer checked over and possibly get a new (or "new" refurbished) one.

So it seems it's the DE that may be causing the freeze-ups and did you get any when using a tiling WM like Spectrwm?

What about kernels?

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Re: A system for when you absolutely can't afford anything to go wrong

It was only supposed to be temporary until I got the money together for a newer one, but I've had it over two years now.

There is nothing so permanent as a temporary fix.

Colonel Panic

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Re: A system for when you absolutely can't afford anything to go wrong

It was only supposed to be temporary until I got the money together for a newer one, but I've had it over two years now.

There is nothing so permanent as a temporary fix.

Tell me about it!

Colonel Panic

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Re: A system for when you absolutely can't afford anything to go wrong

Had another freeze-up today when in Exton MX and trying to play a game called Swell Foop (not exactly the last word in gaming, but it passes the time and provides a challenge of sorts). Maybe it's time to get this computer checked over and possibly get a new (or "new" refurbished) one.

So it seems it's the DE that may be causing the freeze-ups and did you get any when using a tiling WM like Spectrwm?

What about kernels?

Good point. I haven't tried it with a tiling WM yet but for me most of the point of MX (especially MX Exton) is its prettiness; it's a very visually appealing distro. Switching to a tiling WM would lose that (or at least it would take a lot of setting up to get it to look that way). Nevertheless, I will take your advice and try it with a tiling WM to see what happens.

I don't know about the kernel either, maybe I should look into it.

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Colonel Panic

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Registered: 2018-11-13

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Re: A system for when you absolutely can't afford anything to go wrong

Had another freeze-up today when in Exton MX and trying to play a game called Swell Foop (not exactly the last word in gaming, but it passes the time and provides a challenge of sorts). Maybe it's time to get this computer checked over and possibly get a new (or "new" refurbished) one.

So it seems it's the DE that may be causing the freeze-ups and did you get any when using a tiling WM like Spectrwm?

What about kernels?

I've now tried it with i3, and Swell Foop works OK with it but Osmo (my calendar app) still freezes unfortunately.

Colonel Panic

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Re: A system for when you absolutely can't afford anything to go wrong

I've found a solution that works for the time being; I installed antiX 23.2 runit (an old version based on Bookworm) onto my hard drive, updated it from the antiX 23 and bookworm repositories, added a few programs and then created an iso snapshot which I burnt off to a DVD-R.

I'm posting from the live version now and so far it's working fine. If I install it to my hard drive and it goes wrong for any reason, I can boot up the DVD again and go back to a fully working version of the same distro.

Sort of a take on the immutable distro, but without the system resources that Bazzite et al. need

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