As much as I dislike Windows, it’s incredibly uncommon for it to blue screen unless there’s some kind of hardware fault. And if it’s happening in Linux too, you’ve got bad/dying hardware.
In Linux, if your system is hanging for a bit then coming back, then it’s probably a drying hard drive.
One thing you can check with is Burn In Test on Windows. It will stress all the individual components and tell you what’s failing.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Sounds like a bad piece of hardware if it spans OS’s.
dingus@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Wouldn’t surprise me, but the point was that it’s fixable in Windows but not the Linux distro I have tried.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I’d ask which ones you’ve tried but I can tell you already made up your mind.
dingus@lemmy.world 1 week ago
So far I’ve tried Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and Pop OS. Although I only briefly tried Pop OS. Didn’t stick around long enough to see if it would have issues as well. There were other issues with that one that I can’t quite remember…I think it was that often the OS would decide not to boot. Something about a weird compatibility issue with the BIOS or something.