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

  • 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?

      • 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

      • 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).