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0 pointsgruez8y ago0 comments

what did other companies not get right?

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tracker18y ago· 3 in thread

Linux specifically has a horrible track record for sleep/battery management in laptops, and worse recovery. Windows used to be far more buggy, but the long XP era a lot of that was fixed by XP SP3.

Aside:

I just wish there was an option in Mac to use "PC Shortcuts" in all my apps... it's the only place where some of the key combinations feel truly alien in most apps. I use a "PC" keyboard, but remap CMD to CTRL, ALT to SUPER/WIN, and CTRL to ALT... but in the end, terminal is awkward, and some other shortcuts are hard.

May take the time to figure out how to get VSCode how I like it with the windows/linux shortcuts, but my key bindings.. find/replace are particularly awkward to remember, and usually resort to mouse menus.

ryandrake8y ago

Not just a horrible track record, but the current state is also bad. I have a pretty recent Debian install on a bog standard Lenovo which otherwise runs Linux beautifully. It took days of fiddling with conf files and trying things out to get Suspend and Hibernation to work in a sensible way. The kernel, systemd and Gnome all try to do stuff, but they can't seem to agree on who's responsible for what part of power management. This is something that should work out of the box.

deathanatos8y ago

I installed Arch on a T460p, and suspend-to-RAM worked out of the box. (And this has been my experience w/ Thinkpads and Linux for well over a decade now. Now, I don't do suspend-to-disk, because I dislike it.)

ta4445558y ago

Yes I've been struggling with the latest Mint, 50% of the time on wakeup I just get a black screen and no responsiveness. I've had dual-screensaver issues, incoorect monitors etc. Really makes it feel hackish.

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