• KneeTitts@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    I couldnt use linux on my laptop 15 years ago because suspend never seemed to work. Just tried it again last week on my generic desktop, suspend still not working. So ya linux has come a long way. Still cant use it.

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      15 days ago

      An HP by any chance? These don’t handle suspend well and you need to add a parameter or three at boot via grub (or systemd too). Otherwise the system gets tied up filling the log endlessly with rapidly cycling pcie errors and you end up crashing or frozen pretty quickly. If this might be your problem, see

      https://askubuntu.com/questions/863150/pcie-bus-error-severity-corrected-type-physical-layer-id-00e5receiver-id

      And

      https://www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/yh3nkw/freezing_issue_finally_solved_here_is_how/

      Where there’s a problem there’s usually a solution, you just might need to root around the web for answers.

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        15 days ago

        Where there’s a problem there’s usually a solution, you just might need to root around the web for answers.

        Thats a huge problem for linux, average users are never going to do that. But as a long time linux user myself I have been trying to find solution to the suspend problem for a long time and I still cant find one. So Id say its a big problem.

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      15 days ago

      As another Linux user with over 2 decades of Linux as my primary, it sounds like that might be a your laptop problem.

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      15 days ago

      You can’t install macOS on any PC you like either, is it not ready as well?

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      15 days ago

      Lol, if I had a buck for every time a user came to me because Windows got stuck in Suspend and needed a hard reset, I’d retire.

      If Suspend is your ‘‘must have feature’’, then I’ve got bad news for you.

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        15 days ago

        30 years Ive never seen windows fail to suspend… coming back from suspend ya I have seen a few errors in 30 years, not many.

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      15 days ago

      Implying suspend works on Windows either. I’ve got like a 50/50 chance my monitor connected with DisplayPort actually gets signal after waking on Windows. This shit has been a problem for a long time.

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        15 days ago

        Ive been using windows 30 years and linux for 20, Ive never seen windows fail at suspending on any system in that time. Linux on the other hand Ive never seen it reliably suspend on any system. Dont get me wrong I want to use linux at home very badly, but none of the fixes I have looked into have solved the problem. Its a 100% required feature for me.

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          15 days ago

          I had to implement a GPO to disable suspend on windows 10 AND 11 for everyone at my company equipped with HP zbook laptops because it was requiring a hard reset every… Single… Time.

          No amount of bios upgrade ever fixed the issue.