Ubuntu 26.10 kills your applications before it kills your session
Ubuntu 26.10 gives critical desktop services a lower OOM score and disables systemd-oomd's session kill, so memory pressure takes out applications instead of the desktop session.
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Ubuntu 26.10 gives critical desktop services a lower OOM score and disables systemd-oomd's session kill, so memory pressure takes out applications instead of the desktop session.