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sounds like maaaaybe too little ram and no swap? what is your ram size and do you have any swap or zram enabled? i kinda doubt it because multiple distros should have a swap space or zram on by default on a fresh install but maybe not or you explicitly chose not to and it's running out of memory.
Even then the recent LRU swap changes have largely eliminated pathological swap behavior cascading into an unusable system state. Those changes went in like 2y ago and should have been picked up by most distros by now.
I have 16GB of RAM and 16GB of swap as a swap partition. Though I have also tried a 16GB swapfile and saw no difference. I don't know about zram.
If you haven't intentionally setup zram swap you're almost certainly not using it.