I’ve recently installed Mint on a clean partition, and set up dual booting to always prefer that partition over the Win10 one (on a separate sdd). At the moment I’m trying Mint for the very first time, seeing how I like it. And truth be told, it’s quite good! However I’ve had 2 system crashes in the last 2 days, and some games crash without an error log (old world went straight to desktop while mid-turn, and ghost of Tsushima crashed after I paused the game when pressing start).
I’d love to be more knowledgeable and figure this out by myself, but I can’t find a starting point to determine what went wrong in any of these instances.
Are there execution logs or actual error logs that I can check somewhere?
That’s a fair point.
Both system crashes were in fact a totally unresponsive system after a random action minutes after coming back from a long period of inactivity.
Crash 1: computer had been left on, downloading some software and games, for the past 2 hours. When I came back, I moved the mouse, the screen turned on again, I put down my password, saw the files that had finished downloading, and then I pressed alt tab, and the whole screen froze. After waiting 1 minute, I tried closing programs or seeing if anything was responsive, and it was not the case. No keyboard command was working, mouse wasn’t moving. I did a hard reset.
Crash 2: I’m playing something full screen, then pause to go have lunch. Come back 1 hour later, pc never went into sleep, and the screen is still on, on the pause menu. I alt tab to check my email, and when I tab back into the game the screen freezes on my email (with the tab selector in the middle).