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I switched from Windows to Mint 20.x recently. There are many paper cuts. Some particularly annoying examples: * It freezes hard when it runs out of RAM, while

I switched from Windows to Mint 20.x recently. There are many paper cuts. Some particularly annoying examples: * It freezes hard when it runs out of RAM, while Windows stays somewhat usable in that situation. The OOM killer takes 10 mins to kick in, if it does so at all. The situation is probably made worse by the default 1GB swap partition size (why so small? I would have expected at 16 GB to match the RAM size). * hibernate doesn't work out of the box. `pm-hibernate` exits printing no error message (code 128). After installing `uswsusp` it'll call `s2disk`, which works. I still need to figure out which config files to add so hibernate shows up in the power manager and shutdown menu. * When using the graphical updater, the boot partition will fill up, preventing further kernel updates. `apt-get autoremove` fixes that.

thingification 5y ago
The kernel OOM killer just isn't designed for desktop at all, it seems like. Back when I didn't have a ridiculous amount of RAM, I used this instead and was happy with it: https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom The boot thing you mention always seemed a very odd default to me. It doesn't happen to me any more on my work ubuntu machine, but maybe I configured something to fix that and forgot about it.