I use Ubuntu btw. Poweroff could use more write cycles on the SSD because it has to read everything at startup, but suspend has to keep supplying power to the RAM

  • mannycalavera@feddit.uk
    9·
    7 days ago

    To be honest the experience over multiple laptops and multiple Linux distributions with regards to suspend or hibernate has been absolutely terrible for me. I now set my browser to remember all my tabs and simply shut down my machine when I’m not issuing it. It starts up in 30 seconds or less which is maybe 15 seconds more than waking from suspend or hibernate and it’s not likely to break or require complicated set up.

    🤷

    • naeap@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      6 days ago

      Yeah, because of the same experience for the last 2 decades, I always shut my stuff down as well.

      Then I gave an old laptop with Linux to my neoprene nephew. And without further discussion or thinking, he just pressed the power button, when he wanted it to be off - which triggered some kind of sleep mode
      I was so fucking nervous during that, as I had never tested for that, and for the young generation growing up with smartphones that was the obvious move.
      But surprisingly it works like a charm and goes into some kind of standby.
      At least I didn’t got any complains…

      • Panda@lemmy.today
        2·
        6 days ago

        Isn’t neoprene a synthetic material?

        My husband also uses the power button to power off his PC. I didn’t even know it was a thing until he asked me to do it for him at some point and I was very confused. He’s on Windows. I didn’t know this worked on Linux as well (though I know it’s a thing on laptops). Is there a way to configure what it does (on PC) like it does on laptops?

        • naeap@sopuli.xyz
          2·
          6 days ago

          Ah, fucking auto correct

          Should have read: my nephew ;⁠-⁠)

          Edit: and regarding your question:
          Yeah, there some power management tools/deamons to configure in Linux, how to handle what.
          Depends a bit on your distribution/environment, which tools are available - or make sense to be installed

          • Panda@lemmy.today
            1·
            5 days ago

            Haha, to be honest it took me a bit to figure out you might have meant nephew. XD I must admit I even looked it up to see if there was a different meaning to the word that I didn’t know about. :'-)

            Thanks for the tips. I do vaguely remember seeing a setting somewhere but I think I’ll need to look into it more when I’m more awake (it’s past midnight here).

        • smort@lemmy.world
          2·
          6 days ago

          IIRC in the UEFI (aka BIOS), there’s usually a setting to dictate what a tap of the power button does—usually sleep, hibernate, or power off.

          Try tapping F10, F12, or Del during early startup to get into the UEFI setup