[colordrops]

95% of my time re: configuration is dealing with getting suspend/resume to work and not corrupt the desktop environment. Why has this been so damn broken on open source OSes?

The one thing I could do to fully stabilize my env is to ditch the gnome/XMonad hybrid and go full XMonad. That would probably solve all my config issues. Really wish that XMonad with gnome was a first class supported setup though.

[michaelmrose]

It's broken in open source because hardware is horrible but OEM's must make at least a minimalistic effort to make their hardware work with windows lest their hardware be returned to walmart. Presumably infinite effort to figure out how windows does it would yield software that works as well but in the real world of imperfect documentation and finite effort results in imperfect results.

There was a thread on this a while back

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25385860

Short answer buy hardware known not to suck at it.