Notice I said rare. That doesn't mean I've gone all these years without an issue. In fact, I have had my desktop freeze up on me enough that I've had to lean on some tricks to reclaim it. Now, before I continue, I want to make one thing clear: when a Linux desktop freezes, 99.99999% of the time, it's not the kernel's fault. Typically, what causes the issue is a single app that, out of nowhere, consumes a majority of the system resources, causing the desktop to lock up
