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[–] unphazed@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

I've been using it for 3mo now. Mostly no issues, except for installing packages without flatpak, and also the weird random slowdown to freeze (I'm assuming memory management?) I mostly use my machine for learning freecad, watxhing jellyfin, using a browser, and playing Genshin (relaxing to play while people bitch at me on my phone job)

[–] brennesel@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 hours ago

I also installed it on two machines now and really like it. But I have exactly the same freezing issues. I already increased my zram swap to 8GB (having 32GB RAM), but long running idle games still freeze the whole system after a while. Could be a memory leak. I also tried to tweak the config so that applications are automatically closed when on low RAM, but that still didn't help yet.

[–] dingleberrylover@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I don't have any slowdowns or freezes. Do you experience this with other distros as well?

[–] unphazed@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Just years ago with Xubuntu. It may just be my use case. Seems to happen with WINE related stuff mostly, and I usually after days running. Once a week restart isn't too painful.