Programs freeze one by one, until the whole PC freezes

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This just happens at random, at first I thought it was because of the amount of programs I open at start (brave, steam, vesktop, sometimes onlyoffice) but then I opened just brave and it did the same thing. One at a time, programs start freezing and saying "Program is not responding", until eventually everything is frozen and only the actual PC is left, then I have to do RSEIUB to reboot the PC.
I switched from kernel 6.8.0-60 to 59 and it does the same thing, it did look like the problem was fixed for one day.

Is there a log file I can share to help someone diagnose? My specs are an i5-12400f, RX6600 8GB VRAM, 16GB RAM 2666MHz, Zorin is running on an NVME SSD.

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Do you use Wayland or Xorg? You can try to switch to Xorg. Logout, click on your user, then a cog on the screen appears. There you can set Xorg.

Do you use fractional scaling? This can also cause freezes.

Do you have enabled secure boot and fast boot in your BIOS? If yes, turn it off.
If you have dualboot with Windows, also turn off fast start in Windows.

You can try to disable/enable hardware (graphics) acceleration in your browser.

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You might try:
journalctl -b -1 | grep -iE 'error|fail|amdgpu|gpu|oom|nvme|hung|freeze'

Journalctl is the application that you use to retrieve logs.

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I would also check if excessive space is being taken by your log files, using:

journalctl --disk-usage

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Keep an eye on the temperature as well, does the computer get too hot? And does this happen even when you only have a few programs running?

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Welcome to the Forum!

You can find an installed Program called ''Logs'' which will show You Log Entries.

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Thanks a lot for the answers!
Apparently disabling hardware acceleration fixed it...? Can't seem to replicate the problem and post logs. But I wanna give it at least a week until I can close the thread. I'll be reporting.

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Yeah, its an odd thing isn't it? Hardware acceleration works fine in my games, otherwise the GPU couldn't run them without it. The minute I turned hardware acceleration on in Chrome, the browser got so laggy!

I made the decision to keep hardware acceleration off. Same goes for Kdenlive as well. At first I wanted to try it, to see if it would speed up the APP, but it gave a warning it was a BETA feature. I turned it on, and once again, it did the opposite of accelerate, it was like putting the breaks on a little bit.

Decades ago when I was on Windows, I always turned hardware acceleration on, because I felt everything was better to have the CPU/GPU do it, not software. On Linux however, only games seem to benefit from it. I'm not really sure why that is, it just is.

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Turned hardware acceleration back on and it's still not giving me any crashes. I don't know at this point.