Its not down to your Tosh as such as my computer is a HP Pavilion
desktop with 2GB ram.
More likely to be a Unity 3D problem. I had crashes in 11.04 but they
have become more frequent in 11.10.
I assumed that the issues with the upgrade had caused a problem so
did a
full install. The machine crashed again two days later. Also
Firefox was
crashing to the desktop several times a day. I have now downgraded to
Unity 2D and everything is stable.
My non-techie test subject (the wife) has two things that she dislikes
about Unity:
1. The small vertical scroll device is fiddly, especially when using a
touch pad.
2. The launcher is too quick to jump out when you go to select
things in
the top left hand corner of an application, for example the 'Back
Arrow'
on Firefox. This, again, is a particular problem when using a
touch pad
as it is generally less accurate and over shoots are more likely.
There
needs to be a buffer zone between the left hand edge of a 'full
screen'
application window and the left hand edge of the display screen.
Barry T
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Lenovo (G-something or other) has similar problems - Firefox and Libre
Office endlessly crashing, launcher in the way etc.
Additionally, I've got some kind of compressed RAM partitions installed
by Oneiric (I presume) which gparted can't see (so you can't just get
rid of them prior to reinstallation) but which seem to prevent
installation of any system capable of recognising them (which seems to
be kernel 3.0 upwards but I'm only guessing) unless you wipe the entire
HD. This is extremely annoying if you have your /home on a separate
partition. The Ubuntu partitioner can see them but, apparently, not
remove them. I had to obliterate home and allow the Ubuntu installer to
use the whole disk. Otherwise the installer crashes - both Oneiric and
Bodhi.
No, I haven't filed a bug report because I don't feel like breaking my
system in order to reproduce it and don't have time to get to the bottom
of it . . . maybe over the xmas break I'll look into it.
Paula
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