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That's unfortunate, full system freezes like that are sometimes because you ran out of ram/VRAM. If that was what happened, the SteamOS Beta uses zram which should prevent this once the change makes it to stable. In the meantime you could use something like Cryoutilites to increase your swap file size, which should also prevent crashes like that.
@Fubarberry Thank you. This seems like it should be useful for my situation ๐ Do I need to go through the process of setting a root/sudo account for this?
You'll need to set a password for Cryoutilites I think. In desktop mode you can open konsole and run the command
passwd
, then enter your password twice. After that you can just run the Cryoutilites installer.