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Re: Frequent crashing of 18.04

Ok, so whereas it's entirely possible that your installation software is at issue, it's not generally the cause of issues like this. The two most likely options are;
  • Driver incompatibility
  • Hardware fault (specifically, memory, but possibly disk)
The former historically being the "most" likely. If you look in "/var/log" following a crash, specifically at files "syslog" and "kern.log", if you can identify in the log files "when" the crash happened and look at log entries l...
Ok, so whereas it's entirely possible that your installation software is at issue, it's not generally the cause of issues like this. The two most likely options are;
  • Driver incompatibility
  • Hardware fault (specifically, memory, but possibly disk)
The former historically being the "most" likely. If you look in "/var/log" following a crash, specifically at files "syslog" and "kern.log", if you can identify in the log files "when" the crash happened and look at log entries l...

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