• xttweaponttx
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    64 days ago

    This is actually the thing that originally triggered me into wiping my windows OS and switching to Linux a couple years back. Unbelievable that I can put my machine into long-term low power mode and minutes later windows is like ‘lol, did you mean to click update??’

    Can’t believe how much better Linux is for 0$.

  • @Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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    135 days ago

    I had to spend an annoying amount of time finding all of the settings to make it so that my windows machine would never wake up on its own, spread out over an even longer period of time because some of them aren’t easy to trigger on my own so it was a matter of trying something and then trying more things if I find it awake on its own again.

    Even disabling the wake on mouse movement was a pain because it doesn’t properly label mice and keyboards and doesn’t have a global setting. I wanted to keep wake on keyboard but not have it wake if my mouse moved a nm because a butterfly flapped its wings too vigorously as it flew by the closed window.

    After I installed Linux, I went to do the same thing there only to find it already had sensible defaults set.

    • @PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      76 days ago

      Yea, I like to suspend my machine, but rather than hit suspend and walk away I have to wait to find out what has prevented suspend from suspending. That and it trying to goto sleep when I don’t want it to. Drives me nuts

    • @merc@sh.itjust.works
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      14 days ago

      Suspend / hibernate / resume is really a test of the quality of all your device drivers. That’s always been a weakness in Linux, not because of Linux itself but because Windows is so dominant.

    • @ixlthyxl@discuss.tchncs.de
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      16 days ago

      My linux PC used to be unable to hibernate/sleep at all, and my current laptop occasionally gets some kind of backlight burn-in from sleeping when the lid’s closed

  • @MasterNerd@lemm.ee
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    397 days ago

    Linux users when their computer won’t boot because they fucked up their grub config again: (Totally not me)

    • Possibly linux
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      37 days ago

      A lot of systems use systemd boot. Also, why would you be modifying Grub?

      • They’re trolling and have no idea what the fuck they’re talking about. I’ve literally not had a bootloader failure in a decade from multiple Linux OS installs.

        The only time I had an issue was when I was playing with a bleeding edge distro and it borked full disk encryption, but that was INTENTIONALLY bleeding edge and I knew the risks.

        • @MasterNerd@lemm.ee
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          Nah I was doing some virtualization troubleshooting and had to make some changes to grub. Luckily I had backups, but as a serial tinkerer I break stuff pretty often. Also fucked up my fstab when trying to automount drives, though that was an easy fix. I never claimed to be a clever man

  • @SitD@lemy.lol
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    176 days ago

    this meme is especially true for students and the likes 😂 whenever you share a one-room flat with a laptop made by clueless techbros for clueless techbros, the increased fan whirring really shines.

  • @ShotDonkey@lemmy.world
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    Nope. My Linux Mint randomly wakes up from sleep mode all the time. It’s just a bug. Tried to fix it, never found solution. I guess I am fine with it. Well. Not really. Help me if you can!!11!!

  • @the_q@lemm.ee
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    66 days ago

    sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

    That’s how easy updating is on (Debian flavors)Linux.

  • @Petter1@lemm.ee
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    126 days ago

    🤭and sometimes, if you wake your linux things go to shit and all you see is black screen and white mouse on it

    Sometimes super+ctrl+alt+F8 saves me and I can restart PC from TTY, and sometimes, there is only a flashing cursor. In second case, I have to take hard measures and forcefully manually restart it

    (Yes nvidia card with latest proprietary driver and kde on wayland) -> everything latest meaning from endeavour/arch/aur repos.

      • @Petter1@lemm.ee
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        46 days ago

        Maybe it is kinda a bias since nvidia is easy to blame and is existing in most PCs 🤔

        • @Kuro@feddit.org
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          66 days ago

          All my hybernation issues went away after i switched to an AMD GPU. Not evidence in itself, just an experience an opinion.

          • @dukatos@lemm.ee
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            AMD had a problems with hibernation, too. amdgpu driver sometimes crashed on waking up. Problems disappeared about a year ago.

          • @Petter1@lemm.ee
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            16 days ago

            I like how you corrected opinion to experience 😃👌🏻

            And yes, I would call that an evidence, not a proof but clearly an evidence, especially if you did not change anything else (hardware or start from scratch setting up Linux distribution).

  • @Elkot@lemmy.world
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    My PC does this really annoying thing, whenever I tell it to Install and Shut Down the bloody thing restarts every time

    • @JcbAzPx@lemmy.world
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      46 days ago

      That’s because the shutdown hardly exists anymore. When you choose shutdown now it just hibernates. Reboot is the only way to get the full refresh of a shutdown unless you’re using CMD.

  • @mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world
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    I like and I do use Linux as my main OS. No dual boot BS, just pure Linux

    butttttttttttttt

    getting hibernate working perfectly in Linux on new hardware is PITA. I’m just happy with suspend working well, let alone hibernation.

    Modern standby is the absolute shit of an invention.

    This is the ONLY reason I wish I have a Mac. Forget all the memes and jokes about Apple, their laptops suspend very well. IIRC, they also have a hibernation timer built in, so if your laptop automatically hibernates after X hrs. But I dont want to be stuck in their ecosystem, so yeh…

    Linux devs are not that keen to make hibernate work well either. Remember systemd dev forcefully removed the “suspend then hibernate” feature? You can still find the thread on Github lol.

    • @merc@sh.itjust.works
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      Forget all the memes and jokes about Apple, their laptops suspend very well

      The advantage of Apple is that the number of possible hardware combinations is pretty small. With Windows / Linux it’s nearly infinite.

      With a small number of possible hardware configurations, it’s much easier to get sleep/suspend to work well because you can test every possible hardware combination and make sure it works.

      But yeah, their system is basically flawless.

    • @tyler@programming.dev
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      this meme is really true for windows, sometimes my pc wakes up the second I put it to sleep. seems to be some random app I have open allowing it to wake up again. infuriating. With intel macs, they wasted a lot of battery asleep, but my silicon mac can sleep for weeks without losing hardly any battery. linux I still can’t get sound to work properly.

    • @BCsven@lemmy.ca
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      25 days ago

      OpenSUSE hibernate works. Just have to add extention to show the hibernate button (in GNOME)

    • @mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      15 days ago

      I heard mac won’t shutdown at all but only does sleep and someone mentioned any keypress will wake it from sleep so that you can’t clean keyboard…

  • Poplar?
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    106 days ago

    Another day of learning about Linux from the comments under a meme.

  • oppy1984
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    Ugh, the updates…my work PC is Win 11, I got an email from IT last night telling me I had to install the latest update I had been putting off. This morning after I clocked out I started the update. I have 500 down and it took almost 2 hours to download and 3 hours later the installation is only at 53%. I’m just going to go to bed and hope it’s done by the time I have to clock in tonight.

    And my coworkers wonder why I prefer Linux…

  • I Cast Fist
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    Windows would always wake from hibernation/suspension by itself after 2 or 3 hours. Truly a feature, not a bug