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Re:New System76 Laptop: Lemur Pro by vbezhenar on Monday March 23, 2020 @05:13PM (#22668815)
I don't understand why Linux still does not have reliable hibernation. Sleep requires working with BIOS and other hardware components, so I could understand that without proper drivers things might be shaky. But hibernate is hardware-agnostic feature so it should be rock-solid by now.
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Re:New System76 Laptop: Lemur Pro by bitwize on Monday March 23, 2020 @05:23PM (#22668913)
No, it's not really. There's ACPI, but a combination of wiggle room in the standard and vendors saying fuck you to any attempt at rigorous compliance testing means that there's no way to assure that any ACPI implementation will work with drivers the vendor didn't write. The whole state of the PC industry is "does Windows boot/run with this? It does? Ship it."
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Re:New System76 Laptop: Lemur Pro by xvilka on Monday March 23, 2020 @06:57PM (#22669726)
Even in Windows they have to workaround some stupid bugs from the OEM or ODM side.
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Re:New System76 Laptop: Lemur Pro by dragosmocrii on Monday March 23, 2020 @06:05PM (#22669308)
Sounds kinda like most web development: if it runs on Chrome, it's good enough. (Guilty myself)
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