I’m going to be brutally honest and say I have no idea what I’m doing half the time on Linux. Why I chose a development branch less then a month after converting from Windows is something I ask myself on a daily basis… To save myself the embarrassment, I am going to downgrade to the LTS or 16.10 but before I give up I wanna try seeing what I can do about it, Or at the very least, try to understand what happened.
I run apt-get update. upgrade, and dist-upgrade and usually restart on a daily basis, Whatever I just upgraded today has made my AMD processor go absolutely insane on the usage, Compiz seemed to be causing it. So I changed my Window Manager in MATE Tweak to Marco (Compton GPU Compositor) and the problem persists.
Is there a way to see what was upgraded after closing the terminal window?
Edit: After looking around bit and watching my CPU usage spike during windows being moved, I noticed my nvidia drivers are not working properly, I am currently on the x.org driver for some reason and every time I try to check the proprietary drivers, It clicks back to x.org.
Can you please identify the responsible process?
sudo apt install htop
htop
This is a terminal process viewer, on the top you should see the process with active CPU usage by default.
Also please test by turning off compositing (Use Marco - No Compositor) and report back.
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Hi Ouroumov, Thank you for replying.
After a rough night, The problem seems to have been solved, Long story short : It was a problem with the nvidia driver after updating something, It wouldn’t install last night (Something about libc6-dev) but had no problem today.
I do have a few questions about it if you don’t mind, But if you’d like to skip that and make sure we’re all good, Everything is back to normal and running perfectly fine 
Did we have some sort of major update to 17.04 last night? Possibly a kernel update? (I could be wrong, But I don’t recall being on 4.10 before) because my working theory is I updated after a major release of the kernel (or something else?) but before a compatible nvidia driver could be uploaded to the repository. The driver refused to install no matter what I did, Apparently due to libc6-dev. Even after constant reboots, purging it and manually downloading the driver or trying an older one, Nothing would work… But today it downloaded no problem when using ‘apt-get install nvidia-375’
Would this sound like a plausible break down of events? Or do I have no idea what I’m talking about. I fear the latter 
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It’s very possible there was a kernel / libc update.
Actually two days ago was the release of the final Beta of Zetsy, which is the final milestone before release on 13th of April.
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Sweet, Thanks for the tip. At least it gives me a little more confidence to know I’m not completely ass-backwards when it comes to understanding linux in general. I literally switched last month from Windows 7 out of sheer boredom and dying to learn everything I can about it.
Thank you for replying and reading to my newbie ramblings, See ya around
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Well damn, you don't often hear that. And for you to jump into the fray with a more-or-less unstable alpha release. Respect.
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