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[–] Enceladus_One@lemm.ee 28 points 1 day ago (15 children)

Yes, Linux is king. More stable, better hardware utilization. Better customizability. Linux just makes more sense.

[–] Alaknar@lemm.ee 23 points 1 day ago (11 children)

More stable

Wellllll, I wouldn't go that far.

I just had to reboot because clicking anything in the browser randomly started sending the CPU utilisation to higher 70s, which was triggering the fans to spin at full power.

Then I ran a game on Steam and Steam said it's running, but it was nowhere to be found. Had to reboot again.

Both of these happened completely randomly after I changed nothing, just browsing the web.

[–] John@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 day ago (3 children)

You dont have to restart your Computer, you can also just kill a task.

To make it simple use something like mission center

[–] Alaknar@lemm.ee 4 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Steam does something weird when running a Windows game via Proton. I haven't figured out which task to kill to kill a game it's running.

[–] bss03@infosec.pub 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Do you get a window? If so, you can xkill (or the Wayland equivalent, if you compositor provides one).

Failing that, yeah, it can be quite difficult to identify the right proc to kill. Sometimes showing the process "tree" and the full "command line" can help.

Beat of luck!

[–] Alaknar@lemm.ee 2 points 9 hours ago

Do you get a window?

I run games in full screen mode, so maybe it would work. Seems like Wayland has Ctrl+Meta+Esc as the equivalent of xkill. I'll try this if it happens again.

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