Re: Is there some stability problem with Leap x.x?
From the description of your problems, I'd have suspected your primary suspect is your disk drive although you say it isn't...
Still, if you've been using your machine daily, I'd recommend it's still suspect if it's over 5 years old (and keep in mind that most consumer grade drives aren't sold with factory warranties over 3 years).
If drives aren't your problem, then the next thing to check is your memory. Particularly if your memory is the original installed in your system and depending on your environment, pull your RAM and clean the electrical contacts with a pencil eraser and re-install. As long as you have your machine open, you may want to clean the electrical contacts for your disk drive as well (if it's easy access).
If you end up buying a new drive, of course consider an SSD, even if your Winbook fails you can transfer the drive to another machine either internally or as an external drive.
Next thing I'd suggest is to consider if you really need to encrypt your drives.
Some people misunderstand what kind of threats drive encryption protects you from... It won't protect you from malware, viruses and other threats when your machine is running, it only protects you when the machine is powered off and your machine is stolen.
If you need that kind of protection, so be it but don't encrypt if you don't need that kind of protection.
Encrypting is just another layer where the Peter Principle can bite you... Extra exposure to potential problems.
Now,
As for your problems specifically with newer OS nowadays...
You should know that unlike the older OS you remember ran well, today's OS is a lot less likely to cause problems than yesteryear.
Whereas in the old days there was a lot of reading and writing to disk, nowadays there is reading and not much writing... most of that writing to disk is now written to RAM.
And, that is perhaps a good reason to not run KDE Plasma if you have only 4GB of RAM, which might be enough but if you're a relatively heavy User probably isn't anymore and you may be writing to swap.
If you like KDE Plasma, consider installing LXQt as an alternate Desktop.
LXQt uses the same Qt framework most KDE Plasma apps use, so from within LXQt you'll be able to keep using the same KDE apps.
The difference is that all those automated tasks running in the background in KDE won't in LXQt, and you'll also find fewer graphical effects by default, the net effect is that you'll be able to do the same work you did before without many changes but as though you have a couple extra gigabytes of RAM in your machine.
Your Winbook has given you good service for many years, but it may be getting a bit tired...
Modify what is running on it, and you'll help it give you several more years to come.
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Originally Posted by dcurtisfra
How do I do that......"check the systemd Journal"? Is it a regular log file? Where & what name. I can find it if I know where and what to look for. I know I should have done this long ago. But usually I can tell what the problem is by what the machine does....so I've never gotten deeply into log files.(snip)
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