on waking from suspend: panel text missing etc.

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As Jerry says, no OS is perfect, but it's great you have been able to re-set the OS to work satisfactorily for you, not bad for a terrific OS which is free to download and only asks for modest donations from those who can afford it.

I take a philosophical view (this is general, not aimed at this thread's contributors)  - most digital products seem to be mainly sold on "convenience" and speed and big numbers (15 mega what-not assumed to always be better [or of higher social status] than 12, or even 2; phone version 10, when 3 does all I could want...)

Linux gives new life to many old machines which then perform perfectly for the average user, free of charge, whereas the proprietary OS merchants want us to throw the old equipment out.

I hope none of this sounds holier-than-thou sort of lecturing, it's just stuff I feel strongly about, and here is as good a place as any to write about it !

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Only the free software culture of Linux is a major reason to switch to it. There is an excellent base of programs available for legal open download and share in Linux, the counterparts of which too often are commercial in other kinds of operating systems. These free programs sometimes get translated to other systems, sometimes not, but the root remains, they were designed for Linux and the Linux is spearheading this culture and development, that is why Linux needs to be supported.

What I only miss in Linux are "user-lite" photo editing programs, such as Fotor {Microsoft Store version}, Polarr, InPixio, Afterlight. These home user friendly programs heavily relay on the employment of abundant base of filters, providing near ready effect per a handful of clicks. This is an easy go culture, but it does the job, I have actually edited couple of photos this way, example: link HERE. That was processed with Fotor back in the Windows10 time.

But I have come to Linux to experience the ups and downs of actually using it, as long as it is reasonable. If I came just for the favours, I would have already fallen back.

Today I was thinking a bit about the Microsoft and the WindowsOS culture, how it perfectly fits into nowadays culture of "beware", next to "buy or die". The imperfections of WindowsOS make it a perfect market fuss. There is something constantly going on about it. WindowsOS needs so pushed maintenance that it simply keeps the attention of customers constantly around it, especially that majority of computers sold nowadays have some version of WindowsOS installed by default.

I am uncertain how Linux though would behave if itself it gained some - say - twenty percent of the current home user PC market, perhaps it would be just as fussy as the WindowsOS, which actually was I enough happy with, y'know? But there is historical balance to what is going on. WindowsOS would not survive until today if Linux took the place of it back in the nineties, unless something.

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An Update on my original problems, which were on LL 3.8:

I did keep up the practise of not having too much happening on wake-up, ie no flash drives in place, no auto back-up about 3 weeks, with far fewer of those text crashes.

Then 5 weeks ago I upgraded to LL 4.0 & 4.2 and the issue has not returned, so looks to be all right now.