What do I do, when my PC freezes?

Windows has ctrl+alt+del, does Linux Mint has something comparable? The only thing I know about is REISUB, but that borked my PC, so I am hesitant to use that again.

Are there any remaining alternatives to waiting and/or using the power button?

Edit: Thank you all for your insights and possible fixes. Crashes usually happened when I was running (cpu/ram?) heavy workload. Increasing swap space was not even on my radar, so I did that now. :) Hopefully Mint will run more stable now.

  • SpikesOtherDog
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    6 days ago

    Some desktop environments will allow Ctrl Alt Backspace to restart the environment. It’s the Linux equivalent of killing Windows Explorer, and sometime just as sketchy.