On Wed, 5 Jan 2022 at 06:54, Jonathan Ryshpan <jonrysh@pacbell.net> wrote:
On Wed, 2022-01-05 at 01:19 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 1/5/22 01:00, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
Wayland is very flaky, crashes of various kinds, sometimes killing
individual apps, sometimes an entire session.  I can't reproduce the
crashes reliably; they happen when they happen. The only thing that may
be relevant is that I am running Firefox with many (probably too many)
windows and tabs.

It's probably not Wayland.  When it happens, check the journal.  It's
likely the OOM killer.

BTW: KDE is now better.  No artifacts running X11, after nothing but investigating and replying to your email.  Go figure...

Intel is no longer supporting cards that old.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/intel_graphics as usual, lots of good detail

I have a similar vintage system that is mainly used for data transfers from firewire and old
memory card formats, so I may not encounter edge cases with graphics using a low-end
(small fan) nvidia card and nouveau.  There are probably lots of old graphics cards
gathering dust -- you could try ebay or a local computer users group.

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George N. White III