Comment 95 for bug 1833281

I am experiencing this bug on a stock Dell Inspiron 5000 (5482) with 8 GB RAM and the factory SSD. It is completely debilitating. Having 1-2 completely unpredictable, 30-minute-plus, hard freezes per day is a showstopper. I can't trust this environment for professional work, or even to take notes in gedit during a phone call.

I've been an Ubuntu user and advocate at work and home for 10+ years, but I guess I have to quit :(

I tried different flavors, and the bug manifested under all of them: Ubuntu LTS 20.04, Ubuntu 20.10, Ubuntu MATE 20.10, and Debian 10.

Fedora 33 does not suffer from this bug, so I'm using that. I get frequent "Gah! Your tab just crashed" errors in Firefox any time I have more than about 5 tabs open. I conjecture there is some difference between the Redhat-based and Debian-based kernels, that causes the Redhat-based ones to kill a tab process in the circumstance that causes the Debian-based ones to lock up. The Fedora experience is acceptable, though it's still disappointing that Linux performance is has regressed to be inadequate for basic web browsing.

Takeaway: Fedora seems to be an acceptable workaround for people experiencing this bug.