Detroit failed because of automation and off-shoring. Things that could have been repaired or prevented politically, sure. But not directly caused by policies based in bigotry and ignorance.
If any correlation can be made, it’s from white-flight. Which would be caused by Detroit’s massive loss of jobs and Florida’s massive loss of land. But white flight, imo, is the reaction, not the catalyst, of its downfall.
I’ve had VMs do this if not enough vram were allocated.
Since this is running on metal, I’d say check BIOS settings to see if you can dedicate additional memory to video/GPU. This is a pretty common feature for laptops and desktops with integrated graphics.
Following that, see if there may be a better non-free driver for your graphics. I’d recommend getting
lspci
output if you don’t know what chipset it is. What model is the laptop?What you’re explaining re: partial reboot sounds like your window/display manager crashing.