Whether it is due to updates or the following tweaks, I am not sure. But my desktop has been far more stable than in the past month. Crashes are less frequent now. I first subscribed to the KDE repositories, Applications. Extras, and Frameworks5, which improved the stability, but the desktop was still crashing frequently. Doing some reading on my graphics card, I discovered a blue button on the top of the SAPPHIRE Vapor-X 100364VXL Radeon R9 270X was a toggle for Legacy to UEFI support, and apparently, works better in UEFI mode. Pressing the switch may have stabilized the graphics card somehow.