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Personally, I wouldn't accept this as a normal thing to work around.
You likely have a hardware issue, or a hardware incompatibility. Everyone talking about low RAM is forgetting that the kernel is going to kill a non-required process if it eats up memory and is causing a panic. Most of the time you'll get crashes, not freezes.
Does it always freeze when beginning work? Run software to do full checks on RAM (
memtester) and disk (smartctllong test), as those are the most likely culprits.If that doesn't work, and you don't have spares to try, maybe dual-boot or USB boot Debian to try a different OS with a different build structure to rule out incompatibility.
Swapping exists. I don't think kernel kills if swap is availiable. Swapping might be freezing the system