Comment 109 for bug 1321623

Started a new job as Php back-end developer on 1 dec 2016 and was allowed to choose my own PC and OS. As a long-time Unix and Linux user (Solaris, Fedora, Suse, Ubuntu, MacOSX and Mint) I choose an Intel NUC6i5SYB barebones (11 x 11 cm) with 2x 24" monitors and Logitech wireless keyboard and mouse. Most other colleagues have Macs, a few Windows laptops and 1 other Linux laptop guy. They were all jealous of my setup.

I installed Mint 18, and generally run 2 Firefox windows with about 8 tabs open each, PhpStorm, Performance Monitor and terminal with 3 tabs each running a vagrant VM box.

I get 'random' (or at least dificult to reproduce) system freezes about 2x per day. Mostly when I am resizing a window, opening a new browser tab, or closing one. In the beginning also after the screen saver woke up, so I disabled that. I also diabled Bluetooth as I don't use that. I updated Mint going from Cinnamon 3.0.5 to 3.0.6. This seemd to help giving me 2 days without freezes, but yesterday it froze again twice.

My boss told me to send the NUC back for guarantee, but the supplier wil only take it back if I can reproduce the error on Windows. Which I won't because I don't want to use Windows period, and I don't want the problem disappearing on Windows and be forced to work on Windows from then on. So raise the priority on this bug and help out a 28 years Unix and 22 years Linux user.