Don’t know how to help you with those vdi problems, but here is an out of the box thinking: tell him to ask a neighbor.

I have a similar situation so i got a hetzner VM and set up wireguard connections from both ends, so that vm serves as a hub/router. Then you can just ssh into the machine via vpn and do an update, upgrade or whatever.

If you stick with Ubuntu lts, it will require very little maintenance.

Just one: Bing wallpaper

The question is if they will close that 15-20y gap in 3-5y

Not that I’m using them, but what about these two?

https://www.truenas.com/truenas-scale/

https://www.proxmox.com/en/

Look for an error in the journal as soon as the error you mentioned happens. Maybe some details get saved in the journal. Post it somewhere online like pastebin, then we can maybe tell you what to check next

Like others have said, what you are experiencing is super unusual

Like @wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works just said, run memory test.

What hw do you have in that laptop?

something went wrong, but we’re not sure what it is.

Check the system journal with

sudo journalctl -e

This is good.

Three things I would like to see:

1. Starting to systematically add widgets. For example tabbed controls are missing. There is some extra crate, but this should be included in the main iced crate (I think).

2. Declarative ui definition like slint of xaml in wpf

3. Not sure if it is there already, but the ability to style widgets in a good way. For example to replicate how Windows 10 looked like