On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Joe Zeff joe@zeff.us wrote:
If you're having constant crashes like that, there's something wrong. It's been months since I've had to reboot for anything except a power outage, all scheduled.
Hence my post.
Been running Linux since dinosaurs roamed the earth, floppy disks, 110 baud, blah blah blah, many machines, many distros.
This is a new-ish laptop, clean F23 install. Inspiron is one model down in build quality than my usual and I regret that. I've had to disasssemble and retighten screws twice to avoid crashes when lifting, twisting, repositioning screen, etc. This doesn't seem to be a replay of that, although a click certainly can cause mechanical motion. The screw tightness problem was causing a full hardware crash, short to ground, dead box, not a desktop crash, so I'm pretty sure they're different issues.
Of course, I don't use Gnome, but even that should be more stable than this.
GNOME3's not my first choice, just went with the defaults to see how long until I'm disappointed again and find a new desktop.
So I've narrowed it down to hardware, driver or desktop manager. Now to vary one factor at a time, gather data, and try alternatives.