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please randomise and disable my user name / account
thanks

you could try installing Stacer and from there choose startup apps?
https://oguzhaninan.github.io/Stacer-Web/

hope you can see where i'd go with this , but i'm not going to lol , like you said , we not here to debate on OS's

i can also see "find all my posts" and "find all my threads" , but some of my threads that i know i have started ,is gone .
doesn't matter though.

iv'e used linux for about 2 years now and i experienced the same , everything would work flawlessly for up to 3 months and then random freezes starts and it just gets worse ... then i'd do a fresh...

on win10 atm and was curious ,so closed all applications and hit restart...it took a hole 5.5 min before i could do anything again...yikes
before when i had xubuntu on this same machine , a restart...

what i've noticed with win10 ,it seems like it starts up quick ,the desktop will appear ,but try clicking on anything right away and nothing happens.
it's like it's still busy starting up for a...

:mrgreen:

constant freezes suddenly after 2-3 months of no issues .(multiple occasions multiple ubuntu based distros)
got to the point that i reverted to win10...
shoot me lol, but win10 actually works 100s

lol the Tulsa question was for the OP.
just that some years ago i used to sorta know/talk to a guy on a site called mocospace, that had these behaviour/symptoms, kinda sounded just like the OP....

https://global.techradar.com/en-za/news/yet-another-major-antivirus-now-bundled-with-a-cryptominer
is this like getting to be a trend now lol
at least it seems to be off by default ?

is this a ubuntu install alone , or installing next to windows?
usually i just let the installer take care of partitioning , i don't mess around with creating partitions 1st.
at installation where...

i guess the same reason a motor vehicle is more expensive than a bicycle ?

you from Tulsa , Oklahoma ?

before trying to boot from flashdrive , first search how to get into your BIOS depending what PC you have .
then before inserting the flashdrive ,get into BIOS and change boot sequence so flash/usb...

https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2020/11/17/website-visibility

https://www.voog.com/support/seo/getting-your-website-to-appear-in-google-and-bing

plus about million similar links...

good...

ya happy new year from south africa too
just got home from the party , eating my "supper"
](*,)

from your post #1 ... all i can recommend is to to stick to windows .

ok well i tried everything suggested + just about all the info i could find on the webs , it still freezes all the time now .
i'm done doing fresh installs and whatnots.
so , sad as it is for me ,...

nope , it stays stationary in one spot

thanks for trying to help, but i'm not sure i understand?
i thought i did update grub settings , i saved it , the changes showed .
then i ran update grub .
when i changed to nomodeset , my...

dude?
who's that?

ok wait , only place i saw "quiet splash" now was in the grub setting (sudoedit /etc/default/grub)
so edited it to "quiet splash nomodeset" and updated grub and restart.
then my display was HUGE......

fail

i don't know how to check hardware issues, my thinking is why would it work fine a couple months then starts with freezes?
every time it starts freezing i would do a fresh install and it'll work...