What do I do, when my PC freezes?

Windows has ctrl+alt+del, does Linux Mint has something comparable? The only thing I know about is REISUB, but that borked my PC, so I am hesitant to use that again.

Are there any remaining alternatives to waiting and/or using the power button?

Edit: Thank you all for your insights and possible fixes. Crashes usually happened when I was running (cpu/ram?) heavy workload. Increasing swap space was not even on my radar, so I did that now. :) Hopefully Mint will run more stable now.

  • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    2·
    14 days ago

    Yes, you need enough swap to fit all your RAM’s content to successfully hibernate/hybrid sleep. In the case of regular suspend to ram this shouldn’t happen though

    • SpikesOtherDog@ani.social
      2·
      14 days ago

      I have a feeling my swappiness setting was already aggressively paging, so I already had no space. I also turned my swappiness way down.