I also have this problem with a 770 GTX since I switched to KDE 5 about 5 months ago. Freeze without reason learns exept the mouse cursor. Kubuntu 17.10, Kubuntu 18.4, Debian 9 KDE and KDE Neon, same problem. In addition, with the nVidia driver it's worse. --- 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK104 [GeForce GTX 770] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] GK104 [GeForce GTX 770] Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 27 Region 0: Memory at f6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Region 1: Memory at e8000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M] Region 3: Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M] Region 5: I/O ports at e000 [size=128] Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: nouveau Kernel modules: nvidiafb, nouveau 01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation GK104 HDMI Audio Controller (rev a1) Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] GK104 HDMI Audio Controller Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 17 Region 0: Memory at f7080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel Kernel modules: snd_hda_intel