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    11 hours ago

    Yeah, if I’m not using the computer I turn it off because why would I be wasting electricity? So it’s the same for windows or linux to me. You do need to reboot your computer sometimes anyway. For linux it’s when you update the kernel. For windows you just have to reboot for similar reasons or after you’ve spent a bunch of time trying to figure out why something isn’t working and then in desperation “try turning it off and turning it back on again”. Better to just turn it off when you’re done using it and turn it on when you need it again and many of those issues are avoided completely.

    So I turn off my computer when I’m not using it and I save power AND so the computer doesn’t get glitchy. It doesn’t take much time for the computer to boot up, so there’s not much reason to not just turn it off when I’m not using it.

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    17 hours ago

    But by the time the lid is up to reach the power button, it’s already out of sleep and operational…

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      9 hours ago

      I remember when windows used to brag about incredibly fast boot times.

      Now, my 5 yo gaming PC takes about 30 seconds to wake up to the password screen. While my Linux laptop takes 15 seconds to go from cold start to desktop.

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        My 10yo gaming PC is probably “faster” to boot because it is set up to auto logon without password promt so it boots straight to desktop without any interruptions while my Linux laptop has pre-boot-authentication and then normal login. But between these two password promts is basically no time at all

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      16 hours ago

      Lucky you! Mine just crashes when I try to enter Sleep mode leaving both screens on and frozen, and nothing at all working.

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    The problem is that by the time I have said that to them it’s already to desktop. I cursed Myself by having an operating system that is fast and efficient and I also did not install 18 different applications that open at boot. So now I just feel left out from the group not waiting for my computer to finish booting :(

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    First of all, our computers are always on. Those kernels don’t compile themselves, three times a day. Secondarily we could, at least, turn our machines on without having to install a dozen of updates before having to reboot again.

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      19 hours ago

      It was mostly because of Nvidia drivers. So many Linux issues is just Nvidia related.

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        Bs, I have had so many sleep issues on laptops without Nvidia graphics cards.

        The most recent issue I had was something inhibiting sleep that I couldn’t disable.

        Before that it was being unable to decrypt the hibernate data on an encrypted disk.

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      sleep and hibernate work fine on linux. I remember the olden days like 15 years ago where nothing of it worked. contrary to the stupid macos that was forced onto me which sleep means nothing and just keeps draining my bluetooth headphones battery anyway instead of turning off when I tell it to.

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        I still have issues on two separate machines. One won’t hibernate sometimes, I suspect the nvidia card. The other has a new-ish ethernet card, which doesn’t work after waking from hibernation (unless I reload the kernel module)

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          What’s the point of hibernation? You have so much stuff open in some exact state you can’t just turn off the computer?

          It takes less time for me to boot fresh than to resume from hibernation (32GB of RAM)

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            Yes. I leave my laptop running in the office overnight, and at the end of the day I have a bunch of note documents, papers, code editors, and corresponding plots open and arranged among multiple monitors. It’s extremely annoying to re-do this setup the next day, so I leave it running. If hibernation worked reliably, I could turn the machine off at the end of the day.

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          Yeah, I have another one that has a stupid nvidia card that crashes when trying to hibernate sometimes. But that’s nvidia fault, it was not something I would buy, was also forced upon me by another work place. At least it’s consistent since many times it just crashes on boot up too and needs to be forced reboot up to 10 times sometimes.

          Nvidia should burn in hell.

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        Every few updates my Pop_OS! suspend would break (sleep and not wake, or sleep and wake immediately). I could never figure it out beyond knowing NVIDIA was the source. Worked around it by swapping my graphics card to a comparable AMD card-- now my machine sleeps like a baby.

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      You’d still need to turn it on if it’s in hibernate. Well, you might not need to push the power button, might have a laptop that can, while off, key off the lid switch. But the laptop’s still off when it’s hibernated.

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        my desktop and server get rebooted about once a month unless they get a new kernel or are pissing me off.

        my laptop is dead about 50% of the time i turn it on.

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      Oh. Now I get it. Like finally.

      Had to learn about antimemes first. Some of these jokes… like seriously. You need to know the history of the whole joke to get the latest iteration.