> There doesn't seem to have been any effort by Linux developers to fix that (e.g. provide a kernel level GUI to let you pick which processes to kill when out o

> There doesn't seem to have been any effort by Linux developers to fix that (e.g. provide a kernel level GUI to let you pick which processes to kill when out of RAM). There is no and will be no GUI for that, especially considering that many linux devices do not have any. However, that does not mean there is no effort to improve the situation. The main player here is, surprisingly, Facebook. Their effort is going to be integrated into systemd in the form of systemd-oomd and Fedora 34 is going to ship it enabled out of the box (see https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/EnableSystemdOomd https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/EnableSystemdOomd).