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  • yeah, i think you might be right about RAM. Because one day i was holding my latop in my one hand and i saw this screen flickering thing. that was the first time this issue happened. And yeah i can not login to tty when the freeze happens this mean system is completely blocked and is not a graphical problem. I dont think its OOM issue as i have enough RAM and no system doesnt slow down a couple of seconds before freezing entirely. The freeze is random and instant and it happens sometimes when i slide laptop so i think its due to RAM loose connection. Not sure if the RAM is soldered one or is detachable. I will try to replug it and see if it fixes the problem. btw the machine in question is macbook pro 2012 and thanks for replying kind stranger!

    Edit: the ram is detachable.



  • | What GPU and driver are you using? Looks gpu driver related to me.

    	Subsystem: Apple Inc. 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [106b:00fa]
    	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 46
    	Memory at a0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
    	Memory at 90000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
    	I/O ports at 2000 [size=64]
    	Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [virtual] [disabled] [size=128K]
    	Capabilities: <access denied>
    	Kernel driver in use: i915
    	Kernel modules: i915
    
    00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller [8086:1e31] (rev 04) (prog-if 30 [XHCI])
    	Subsystem: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller [8086:7270]```
    






  • Yeah it was tough to install it on MBP 2012. Before this particular installation i already had tried to install it once or twice and failed due to some bootloader / grub efi issue.

    But i came back after months and tried to get feel of KDE on it. Its good but package manager and software repos are very niche. Not easy to find some apps in repos and u can always install from .tar ball but i dont like that approach. So i hoped to another disteo. YaST tools are awesome. It was the package manager / repo why i switched not KDE itself.