The latest few kernel releases (vanilla, LTS and zen) have ALL had the same issues
Steam crashing and restarting
Random freezes
Kwin crashing
brave tabs also just crash randomly, i've seen the 'aw snap! your tab crashed' message so many times.
minecraft (fjord launcher) would crash with exit code 6, and other times it would crash kwin or freeze my system.
it's better now in 6.15.2 but 6.14.10 was horrible, barely even usable
now in 6.15.2 zen my computer freezes after a few hours and discord calls make it freeze too within minutes. I'll try out vanilla but so far it hasn't been too stable. I'm not even sure this is a kernel issue but I genuinely don't know anymore, I just want my computer to work reliably. LTS doesn't help either. Maybe it's a kde or wayland or mesa issue?
I'm not really sure what to do, is there a better way to downgrade packages than using downgrade from AUR? Maybe revert an update somehow?
I'm on runit with KDE if it matters.
https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,7614.15.html
Seems like it might actually be a mesa issue, I tried downgrading to a few previous versions but my DM couldn't start with any of them, I just got a black screen.
Did you check the log flles in /var/log and the output of dmesg? Hopefully that provides relevant info.
artist
Thanks, which log files should I look at specifically and how do I check dmesg?
dmesg is a command that you can run as sudo or root.
I would just say, if you want help, people here are expert and helpful. But you should really partner with them in solving your problem by educating yourself in some basics. man dmesg? search dmesg on a search engine? Help yourself a little bit. In addition to tech support, you should get some education out of this.
I post this because we repeatedly get this question over and over. It gives the appearance of laziness. On usenet we had a standard FAQ we posted. The C and C++ FAQs were a Tour d'Force.
thanks, I managed to figure out that it's a ram issue.
yep, it was a ram seating issue, some dust got in or something.