What do I do, when my PC freezes?

Windows has ctrl+alt+del, does Linux Mint has something comparable? The only thing I know about is REISUB, but that borked my PC, so I am hesitant to use that again.

Are there any remaining alternatives to waiting and/or using the power button?

Edit: Thank you all for your insights and possible fixes. Crashes usually happened when I was running (cpu/ram?) heavy workload. Increasing swap space was not even on my radar, so I did that now. :) Hopefully Mint will run more stable now.

  • abcdqfr@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    My display manager keeps hanging during wallpaper engine development, never does respond to Ctrl+Alt+F2. Only REISUB seems to be able to save me. Never had anything borked or out of place after reboot. Any ideas? That still sound like the display driver crashing? Haven’t done much diagnosing since I’d have to cludge through troubleshooting over SSH on Android at random :\

    • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
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      3 months ago

      have you tried other ttys? there could be something running on 2.

    • deadcream@sopuli.xyz
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      3 months ago

      Could be a GPU driver bug. I get them occasionally with amdgpu. In this case only hard reset works (no it’s not a hardware problem, Windows never freezes like that).

      BTW you can get logs of the pervious boot using journalctl -b -1 command. Useful for debugging freezes like this.