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I’ve used this but it made my laptop spontaneously reboot a few times (or was it a hard lockup that necessitated a reboot)? I liked it but ended up putting it away.

Dual GPU nvidia and integrated Intel, was running the latest Ubuntu LTS at the time with all updates.

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And that's why it is best to avoid GPU-acceleration unless you truly need it.

GPU drivers have always been full of bugs and will always be, since modern GPUs are ridiculously complex and designed for speed rather than reliability.

eek what? That shouldn't happen on a modern OS, unless the cpu spiked so hot the computer decided the best course is a reboot.

Typically it's a RAM issue, or power stability issue or a graphics card issue/firmware causing instant reboots

Unfortunately, it often does. I've run into this on both AMD and NVIDIA hardware.

> That shouldn't happen on a modern OS

They're running Ubuntu.

Care to explain? Sorry I don't use ubuntu but the claim that the OS just straight up reboots during normal operations is particularly concerning.

It's completely normal for Linux operating systems, and in fact even most others (even Windows and Mac under certain loads), to choke and fail under resource exhaustion. I've experienced it the most with Linux though, but I've done it to Windows and Mac too.

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