Gnulinux
Not sure what I did differently this time, but I was able to disable sound before I launched the client and that fixed the crashes :)
The problem was apparently the sound. I am not crashing any more. :D I'm thrilled I can play now.
One thing I've seen over the years is a lot of folks turning off the sound for stability. The reason I mention it is that most of them have one thing in common; they run Linux.
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