Alas, no! The 'timeshift taking snapshots way too often and filling your hard drive' would have been easily fixable via disabling that and purging most of the backups, this was something far more messy, sadly.
It was some strange problem with the graphical card and audio drivers interacting with the Kernel as far as we could tell from the few error messages we could see before we got a freeze each time and the related directly observable issues (screen flickering, audio fading out and stopping working until a reboot, etc). There was apparently something on arch wiki for editing a specific file with some code to fix the freezing issue on that model, but we couldnt get it to do anything and threw in the towel. The research we did as far as we understood was that linux DID once work well on that laptop, but only on kernel versions no longer supported, and all the current ones Do Not Play Nice. So it gets to be a neutered windows 11 machine instead.
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Date: 6/19/25 11:34 pm (UTC)It was some strange problem with the graphical card and audio drivers interacting with the Kernel as far as we could tell from the few error messages we could see before we got a freeze each time and the related directly observable issues (screen flickering, audio fading out and stopping working until a reboot, etc).
There was apparently something on arch wiki for editing a specific file with some code to fix the freezing issue on that model, but we couldnt get it to do anything and threw in the towel.
The research we did as far as we understood was that linux DID once work well on that laptop, but only on kernel versions no longer supported, and all the current ones Do Not Play Nice. So it gets to be a neutered windows 11 machine instead.