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    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day 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$.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

    "My" "p" "c"

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 2 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.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

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

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

    On RHEL it's simply sudo dnf update -y

    [–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Turn the fucking PSU off, dipshits. Perfectly safe to do while hibernated, and you're now in complete control of when it powers on.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

    Modern PCs don't truly hibernate, they sleep. If the tower loses power its considered a hard reset.

    If anything, Windows machines often have 'fast boot' enabled which saves certain things to state, so today's manual shutdown (without power loss) is closer to old school hibernation than today's 'sleep' is.

    You can shutdownyour PC each night, but depending on what you're working on it can disrupt workflow, so I understand why many people prefer to sleep instead.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

    STOP TALKING ABOUR WINDOWS!! STOP TALKING ABOUT WINDOWS!!!!!! IM BORED

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

    oOooOooOo πŸͺŸ

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

    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.....

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    My PC does this really annoying thing, whenever I tell it to Install and Shut Down the bloody thing restarts every time

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

    So I dualboot and each time i shuts down, i get boot menu. Are you telling me that is not shutdown in windows?

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 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..

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

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

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

    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.

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