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Re:Being Thankful for Free Software Developers by bumblebeard on Monday August 14, 2017 @01:34AM (#15006734)
Hybrid graphics likely depends on a proprietary driver to work so that's probably where the problem lies. As for the RAM, you might just need to expand your swap partition so its the same size in order for hibernation to work.

And really, this has nothing to do with free software; there are even more horror stories like this about Windows and macOS and those are both proprietary systems.

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Re:Being Thankful for Free Software Developers by peterwwillis on Monday August 14, 2017 @01:39AM (#15006750)
The problem lies in commercial companies not making free software. But since they don't, what you're left with is non-commercial free software, which in practice is worse than the alternative. Free software is broken, and you can fix it. Commercial software works, but you can't fix it.
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