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by neuromute 3446 days ago
What are you migrating to, if you don't mind my asking?
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FreeBSD, so the migration is not just away from Debian but also Linux. Of course problems always arise in such operations, but in general we have been very happy with the change, and I'm just as excited about FreeBSD as I was with Debian before.
Do you migrate you workstation to FreeBSD too, or your servers and the like only?

In any case I want to take this opportunity to note that FreeBSD is quite nice as a daily driver on your workstation. The only missing thing is bug-free suspend/hibernate, which works for some and for some doesn't.

edit: added missing adverbs.

In my experience, you're also rolling the dice when you suspend Linux. My x99 workstation, z77 workstation, and XPS 13 have all failed to resume before. But Windows has done the same. I guess ACPI is a mess.
> But Windows has done the same. I guess ACPI is a mess.

Of course, you don't mention macOS. I never had issues with suspend on any of my MBPs. If I did, it turned out that was my battery got empty, and the few times this happened I did think about suspend failing. Turned out I was wrong.

Thing is though it's an OS tied to a certain hardware since years. If Apple couldn't provide a seamless experience it'd be pure incompetence.
Good for you. I've never owned a MBP, and this thread is about switching from Debian to FreeBSD.
You completely missed the point. If ACPI is a mess, how come macOS doesn't suffer from the issue?