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by kelnos 2644 days ago
At the risk of sounding uncharitable, what is the purpose of your comment? It is hard fact that sleep mode is not a consistently solved problem on Linux. Hardware variations abound, and "works for me on my hardware" isn't very helpful to people with different hardware where it's not as reliable.
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firmgently 2644 days ago
This isn't the right comparison to make.

As you mentioned, Linux runs on hardware made by hundreds/thousands of different uncoordinated manufacturers. Mac OS runs on a very narrow range of hardware built by the same manufacturer that makes the software. Linux is a very different project to Mac OS.

So take the best examples of Linux machines and compare those with Macbooks. So if eg. Dell XPSes or modern ThinkPad X series have solved the sleep problem consistently then it's fair to compare those with Macbooks.

Of course this doesn't help those people who have trouble with sleep on Linux and hopefully it will get better... but comparing a broad elastic OS running on a vast mess of thousands of different devices with an OS designed specifically for a small range of tightly controlled hardware isn't reasonable. It would make more sense if there were no good examples of decent Linux machines, but this isn't the case.

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kelnos 2642 days ago
I'm not making that comparison (I never mention macOS at all); not sure where your reading that. I'm merely pointing out that a response of "it works for me and has for 10+ years" when someone says "it doesn't work on my laptop" is entirely unhelpful.

In fact it shows that they don't at all get the point you've made that Linux runs on orders of magnitude more hardware variants than macOS does and thus it should be obvious that all hardware can't be equally well supported.

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vetinari 2644 days ago
It's not consistently solved on Mac either (I have sporadic problems waking up rMBP early 2015 while docked with TB2 dock).
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aembleton 2644 days ago
I guess it's to demonstrate that it does work on some hardware. I've not experienced any sleep issues worse than what I had on a Macbook. ie, it works 99% of the time.
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kelnos 2642 days ago
Right, but I think that demonstration is unnecessary (because, duh, of course it works on some hardware), and entirely unhelpful (because, duh, the person being replied to does have issues with it, and describing an unrelated experience doesn't add anything to the discussion).
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