PS: if the disk fills up after deleting files (with rm) then some process may be the cause. Use the iotop command to show what processes are doing the most reading and writing, similar to top but for io.
If you haven’t you can also hunt down the biggest directories either with a disk usage analyzer or command line. Cd into whatever to level directly (your home dir) then: sudo du -dk | sort -n
I agree with the other comment to beware and look at getting a new drive in case this one is shitting the bed.
If it were my system I would look for any signs of disk related errors in the logs (likely would show in /var/log/syslog or maybe kern.log).
Also, did you empty your trash (if you used GUI to kill the files)?
You verified the disk has free space right? (Via df or whatever GUI tool, maybe disks or the file manager)
Another thing I might look at out of curiosity is disk io stats. Is the disk swamped with IO for some reason? We’re assuming the bottleneck is disk io but then again maybe something else weird is going on.
One of us could probably put that together pretty quickly lol
But if we did want to build a new distro recommender… Maybe there are like 5 or so questions that would be relevant.
Just off the top of my head some possibilities:
If you’re a beginner, Mint is a good choice. One could argue Ubuntu (noobs don’t gaf about snap if they even know what it is). I think noobs would want good GUI tools and a very popular, very polished distro. So issues are infrequent but finding answers is easy.
Into gaming? There’s a few distros that come up like Nobara. (I’ve seen Manjaro mentioned but idk).
If you want something that looks kinda like macos there’s Endeavor. Does anyone recommend that one these days? I don’t usually see it mentioned.
Idk.
You’re probably right, an rng that chooses between a few distros might be better lol
I appreciate what glorious eggroll does. And I’ve had no issues with the few games I’ve played on Steam.
I’ve been running Nobara for several months and it has been very stable though I find it is lacking a little polish around the edges in some areas. Kind of like how Mint was when I first started about 10y ago.
I’m trying out Fedora now for a while. On kernel 6.5. I was on 6.1 in Nobara. I have one game that’s crashing now (it wasn’t crashing in Nobara … go figure). So I may have to go back to Nobara or try to figure out what they did with Nobara vs Fedora that would help.
When Mint gets to kernel 6.x some day, I might jump back. (5.19 doesn’t support my GPU). Overall Mint became very polished. I hardly ever ran into weird issues. Although I do remember feeling Cinnamon blew up every so often.
Likewise (related to aid) churning out liberty ships at the rate of 3 ships every other day to counter lost cargo ships was totally superfluous and not at all crucial for England.