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Laptop randomly freezes. How to debug it?
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I would look at these things first.
Great idea. I will try some time with XFCE. One of the challenges is that I don't know how to trigger the crash, and sometimes it can be days, other times multiple times within an hour.
Boot memtest
Leave it to do it's thing overnight. That will at least check for badly failing RAM.
I've run this on machines that I thought were ok, only to find... they weren't.