Comment by osigurdson

11 hours ago

Do you use a laptop? It seems that doing the right then when opening / closing the lid only happened in the past 5 years or so.

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AlecSchueler  11 hours ago

This is something I see repeated everywhere but I've been using Linux daily on all sorts of laptops for a little over 15 years and never struggled with this issue.

But during my brief period on Windows I would get issues like my colour settings changing or the behaviour of certain meta keys being switched out when I woke a sleeping laptop.

  • JodieBenitez  10 hours ago

    My colleagues run linux laptops and they don't struggle with this issue either. They just completely turn off their laptops anytime they want to move somewhere. That's how they trust their OS.

    • osigurdson  9 hours ago

      >> They just completely turn off their laptops anytime they want to move somewhere

      Fine but that attitude isn't going to increase Linux adoption. Arch does work in this regard today but it does require some BIOS tweaks to get it to work flawlessly. Compare this to a MacBook where closing the lid always does the right thing and seems to use basically no power at all in this state. For me, I'll accept the trade-off as I don't want to use macOS (makes no sense for development imo) but some aspects of the experience are clearly superior.

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