| On what laptops does sleep/hibernate work correctly when you close the lid, with Mint? Seriously, swear to fucking god, every time someone says “oh Linux just works”, the next comment is “oh? I tried that distro on the recommended hardware and had trouble with…” Next response is ALWAYS: “Oh yeah that’s broken but I don’t use that feature.” Usually about hibernate. As in, apparently everyone using a laptop plugged into a wall and never closes the lid. Or uses a desktop. I don’t even know, it doesn’t make any goddamn sense. I just don’t believe you guys any more. Everyone who says Linux just works has adapted their workflows to be hyper specific to the things they do, and have just decided that basic-ass features present and working on mainstream OSes are just gimmicks that the rest of us should forgo out of moral purity. Also with this “try again” noise. Good lord, happy y’all are blessed with the patience to try again until you find the right Goldilocks set of hardware and tweaks that doesn’t give you a migraine but there exists a large contingency of the population that doesn’t spend every waking moment staring at glowing rectangles. Spare us a fucking thought, and spare a thought for our relatives who took years to learn how to double click. |
If anyone knows how to get XUbuntu 18.04 LTS to not shut down with the lid closed and power on, please let me know. I have a subnotebook that sits in a cabinet to run something, and since a recent "upgrade", it won't stay alive. Looking with Google produces at least five articles on this, all contradictory and none of which work. There's a GUI for setting this, it's set appropriately, and that doesn't work. There's a relevant configuration file where the "close lid" option can be set, and that doesn't affect this problem.