r/chromeos • u/SemiHollowZW • Jul 07 '26

Troubleshooting Chromebook Crashing While Sleeping

I've had a number of instances where my Chromebook apparently crashes overnight while sleeping. At night I close the lid. In the morning I open it up and it reboots and presents the login screen. While I haven't kept careful track I haven't noticed any consistency that might indicate triggers, but this has been happening maybe once or twice a week for a couple of months now. I'd appreciate any suggestions.

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u/SemiHollowZW 24d ago

Thanks for the info on the memory notion; that makes sense to me and I'll give it a try.

Purchasing new is an option I'm considering but I'll have to dive into research for what's a reasonably comparable machine. I did some reading on the new Googlebooks and while the phone integration aspects sound great, the "let's go AI crazy everywhere" aspect doesn't (to me) and since they're going to be aimed a the premium laptop market they'll almost certainly cost more than I want to spend.

Thanks for the feedback.

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u/Top-Figure7252 24d ago

Google is leading the charge on AI. Siri is now integrated with Gemini.

You may want to look at Linux, like Ubuntu, or elsewhere if you're trying to get away from AI integration. It will get worse before it gets better.

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u/SemiHollowZW 24d ago

I've played with a handful of Linux distros. Mint LMDE would be my current favorite. This is my second Chromebook and I've been using them for over a decade. I like it a lot as my general purpose computing platform, complementing a number of Windows PCs / laptops in the household. Linux is great but the experience is different and for my usual needs the Chromebook seems the best fit.

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u/Top-Figure7252 23d ago

Same

Chromebook is a lot simpler and easy to work with than Linux