Comment by adrian_b

Comment by adrian_b a day ago

I have never understood why some people want to avoid switching off their computers.

I have stopped using Apple laptops more than 15 years ago and since then I have used only Linux laptops.

I have no idea whether hibernate worked on my laptops, because this is a feature for which I have never felt any need.

I always take care to optimize the boot time on my computers with custom built kernels and carefully selected daemons (and I do not use systemd). For decades, the boot time on my laptops had been of perhaps twenty seconds at most and the biggest delay in starting to use the computers after being powered off is entering a password to unlock them, not the start-up of the OS. Using something like hibernation instead of complete power off would speed up negligibly the process of beginning to work on the computer.

eckelhesten a day ago

Pop open the lid, be right back to where you were. No amount of boot time optimizations will trump that.

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edgineer a day ago

Sleep is just different from shut down. With an unplugged laptop, after an idle period or by shutting the lid, I'd like the machine to save energy. I haven't always taken the steps to prepare for a shut down, saving open documents. I wouldn't like to wake back up an idle machine to see that my programs had all been closed.

And sometimes I'd like to quickly put a laptop into a bag without waking it up just to shut it down first. If I had a way to transition from sleep to shut down I'd use it, but also... this is where I see that if the sleep state were more perfect (used zero energy, zero unintended wakeups), it would obviate my need to shut down most of the time.

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