Yes yes, I REALLY want to terminate that process and I am very sure about it too, ty.

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    Is there some Linux equivalent to “ctrl + alt + del?” I get that killing a process from the terminal is preferred, but one of the few things I like about windows is if the GUI freezes up, I can pretty much always kill the process by pressing ctrl+alt+del and finding it in task manager. Using Linux if I don’t already have the terminal open there are plenty of times I’m just force restarting the computer because I don’t know what else to do.

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      Ctrl+alt+F1/F2/F3 etc.
      It lets you switch to another terminal session, where you can use something like top/htop for a commandline equivalent to task manager.

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        I’ve heard those quick keys a thousand times but my brain has determined that it is not necessary information for me to retain.

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      Do you have enough swap allocated to your linux machine? I found that my GUI froze frequently due to not having enough of it when the computer was under heavy load.