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It's pretty hard to totally "crash" a running Linux kernel, so understanding some details about what symptoms happened, during, and after (screen freezes, sound stops, mouse stops...etc) would be helpful to discern if this was a kernel thing, or just apps crashing. Almost always ends up being a hardware issue or resource constraint though.
As for game logs and crashing, here are some guides and info:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3287870137 (This shows some debug steps in detail) https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/6650 https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=285102
That’s a fair point.
Both system crashes were in fact a totally unresponsive system after a random action minutes after coming back from a long period of inactivity.
Crash 1: computer had been left on, downloading some software and games, for the past 2 hours. When I came back, I moved the mouse, the screen turned on again, I put down my password, saw the files that had finished downloading, and then I pressed alt tab, and the whole screen froze. After waiting 1 minute, I tried closing programs or seeing if anything was responsive, and it was not the case. No keyboard command was working, mouse wasn’t moving. I did a hard reset.
Crash 2: I’m playing something full screen, then pause to go have lunch. Come back 1 hour later, pc never went into sleep, and the screen is still on, on the pause menu. I alt tab to check my email, and when I tab back into the game the screen freezes on my email (with the tab selector in the middle).