Too much crashes on Manjaro i3 (Just ElectronJS apps, and browsers (palemoon and chrome bases))

Manjaro make me mad. too many crashes. All electron Apps, All browsers, NodeJS cli, nodemon, It seems something is wrong with NodeJS/Chrome-base apps. What can I do?

inxi -Fxzc0 output:

System:
  Kernel: 5.10.84-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
    Desktop: i3 4.20.1 Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Desktop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Compaq Elite 8300 SFF
    v: N/A serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 3397 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: Hewlett-Packard v: K01 v02.83 date: 10/29/2012
CPU:
  Info: quad core model: Intel Core i5-3470 bits: 64 type: MCP
    arch: Ivy Bridge rev: 9 cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB L3: 6 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1758 high: 2087 min/max: 1600/3600 cores: 1: 1597
    2: 1753 3: 2087 4: 1597 bogomips: 25554
  Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor Graphics
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.21.1.2 driver: loaded: modesetting
    resolution: 1600x900~60Hz
  Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio
    vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.84-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network vendor: Hewlett-Packard
    driver: e1000e v: kernel port: f080 bus-ID: 00:19.0
  IF: enp0s25 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: br-19328b708e35 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: unknown
    mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-2: docker0 state: down mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-3: tun0 state: unknown speed: 10 Mbps duplex: full mac: N/A
  IF-ID-4: veth898ce24 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full
    mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 577.55 GiB used: 437.57 GiB (75.8%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: KingMAX model: SSD 120GB size: 111.79 GiB
  ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Toshiba model: DT01ACA050 size: 465.76 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 62.47 GiB used: 25.57 GiB (40.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 798.4 MiB used: 288 KiB (0.0%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sda5
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 7.91 GiB used: 768 KiB (0.0%)
    dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 226 Uptime: 2h 56m Memory: 7.65 GiB used: 2.09 GiB (27.4%)
  Init: systemd Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 Packages: 1167 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.12
  inxi: 3.3.11

Please help. I think installing Manjaro was a bad idea. Because I was using Ubuntu and I had less problems than Manjaro. But I like Manjaro i3 and now I wanna fix this issue to stay on Manjaro.

Log?
I guess 8GB is not much for Browsers and Electron

also update bios if you can

Please note that my 8GB ram does not full at all (except somtimes that I open too many chrome/brave tabs, vscode, postman and other apps) my ram usage go up to 7GB. But now it makes me mad because I face this issue when I have not too much opened applications.

I think It is due to my kernel. Now I want to downgrade to 4.14v.

Really? Is not it dangerous (I heard that it can cause ultimate turn off and I would not be able turn it on again)?

Only of you make the mistake of shutting down the power during the update.

Maybe you dont mean to, but this kind of communication comes off as negative, whiny, and demanding.


Do you mean to tell me that in your entire computing life, you have never updated BIOS?
Thats certainly going to give you some less than desirable behavior.


And since you mentioned node …
Do you use a node.js package manager like npm ? Have you used sudo npm ... ? (dont)


Also you are out of date, or in a partial-upgrade state. Nothing else is considerable until you fix this.

sudo pacman-mirrors -g && sudo pacman -Syyu

Maybe you dont mean to, but this kind of communication comes off as negative, whiny, and demanding.
Note:

  • I need an stable OS. Not error prone OS. At least this is my experience. Or maybe it is because of incompatibility between my hardware with Manjaro. IDK.
  • What I mean by β€œmad” is that it cause too many problem for me and now I am exhausted. Postman, Chromium, Brave, VSCode, and Etcher does not work. They crashes too much. I think Manjaro is not compatible with Node.JS and Chrome base applications.

Do you mean to tell me that in your entire computing life, you have never updated BIOS?

Yes. Because it is not my System. It is company’s PC

Do you use a node.js package manager like npm ? Have you used sudo npm ... ? (dont)

Obviously, no. I do not and I did not.

Also you are out of date, or in a partial-upgrade state. Nothing else is considerable until you fix this.

I run this command sudo pacman -Syyu and it throw this error:

error: could not extract /usr/share/vala/vapi/ibus-1.0.vapi (Zstd decompression failed: Restored data doesn't match checksum)
error: problem occurred while upgrading libibus
error: could not commit transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (transaction aborted)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded

I also did sudo pacman-mirrors -f && sudo pacman -Syyu but no differ.

Well, my manjaro is not error-prone. But I also keep it maintained, including up to date … the same cannot be said for your system. In its current state it is broken and outside of support. Of course things dont work.

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The first error message said β€˜Restored data doesn't match checksum’ and you have said that its a company PC. Which says that the downloaded package is damaged.
Is this PC also in a company network where for example a firewall-system or something similar modify your network packages?

I would suggest to remove β€˜ibus’-package, update the system(if needed) and reinstall β€˜ibus’-package again.

And could you please post the whole output from β€˜sudo pacman -Syyu’, which makes it easier to help.

OT: In my opinion using electron apps is not good if you look for a performant system because every electron app is a chromium browser instance with an javascript ui and took for the most usecases to much resources.