@atomicpoet A friend who is a retired schoolteacher had her laptop die. I bought her a @system76 one with Pop!_OS. What's amazing is that she has never ever asked me a support question although she was switching from a very old Fedora laptop. I have recently purchased a System76 desktop, but mine is @debian Debian Testing with KDE.

@kernellogger @brendangregg
Getting back to previous comment about I/O- and memory-related failures, note that Gregg's _System Performance_ has multiple chapters on these topics, and network too.
For example, a fantastic talk at Southern California Linux Expo a few years ago by Frits Hoogland (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/19x/speakers/frits-hoogland) highlighted how low memory can limit writeback of dirty pages and make a system very slow indeed.

@kernellogger What about memory exhaustion and I/O bandwidth oversubscription? I'm a big fan of the "PSI" metrics:

$ ls /proc/pressure/
cpu io memory
from

$ uname -a
Linux schallkreis 6.12.21 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC

comes in 3 delicious flavors for good reason.

@inthehands @arclight asks: "I'm going to say this as a Texan - why should you do the work?" Because you yourself will feel happier.

Copilot reports

"the maximum length can be 2097152 bytes (approximately 20MB)."

Very, very approximately.

@inthehands I don't find the question important. One can often defuse confrontations by being polite and friendly even when others are rude. Example: a chance encounter with a Texan who insulted and demeaned California, where I live. "I spent a lot of time in TX on business for my last job," I responded. "I was delighted by how friendly everyone was." A pollite response encourages the angry individual to see you a person. Rather than get angry, the polite responder is, if nothing else, happy that they've at least attempted to have a conversation.