Believe it or not, I really love the way you push your computer to the limits. And sometimes, we must break things for science! HEHE
Thank you very much for your kind words about my writing. I guess it all started back in school when I had to write essay's. Then later in life I began writing reviews professionally, until the website died of course.
I have written a few super short stories, written from the perspective of the hopeless romantic. But it was just a personal adventure, and only shared with a couple of people. I never published anything.
I am a mechanic by trade, I fix small engines, lawn mowers, that sort of thing. Speaking of which, I do a little lawn mowing on the side, always good to make a little extra income. I am also a bit of a computer tech, I love computers what can I say? lol.
You should know I am a big movie buff, some people on here have already noticed that, as I post material from lots of different sources, I will make a movie buff out of Kedric before the year is over! lol. And I love to play video games of course.
One of the wonderful things about Zorin OS, especially if you buy PRO, is that it comes loaded with pretty much, most of the apps your going to need to do production work. And what it doesn't come with, you can find in the software center.
Since you are doing strong production work, you might want to think about upgrading your RAM eventually. I do some production work on occasion, mostly photo editing and video editing.
This is an old screenshot I took of Stacer, which is showing how much resources I was using, while rendering a 1-hour 4K video, in Kdenlive.
And yes, I do recommend Stacer, as its an awesome resource monitor, and system cleaner APP.
Regarding your question at the end. First try restarting your computer, if a simple restart does not fix this issue, we will dive deeper into it later.