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Re:The Day Windows Died by pmontra on Monday April 03, 2023 @02:54AM (#35419501)
It either works or it doesn't. Workarounds are usually permanent.

Example: I booted a friend's Thinkpad t440p with an Ubuntu 22.04 pen drive to check that she was OK with it and that there were no issues. All went well (screen, touchpad, USB, printer, scanner) except resume from sleep: the pointer froze. An internet search returned the workaround from many years ago

  sudo modprobe -r psmouse
  sudo modprobe psmouse
It worked and my friend was OK to add it to systemd post resume script. Given the age of the workaround it will never be fixed so it's up to the user. Maybe the kernel or the distro should make some checks on the hardware and take care of it but I guess that there are thousands of those combinations. Lenovo is doing that work with Microsoft for their hw on Windows, they are not doing it with Canonical on Ubuntu nor they are sending patches to the kernel.
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Re:The Day Windows Died by michelledepeil on Monday April 03, 2023 @03:10AM (#35419640)
Ha! I've actually been facing this same problem on a t440s.

thanks for posting the fix!

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Re:The Day Windows Died by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Monday April 03, 2023 @08:44AM (#35422555)
> Given the age of the workaround it will never be fixed

Man, there are so many of these. Not just in FOSS but software in general. What makes it annoying in FOSS is the fact that developers would rather rewrite everything in rust than fix many-years-old issues, even when someone has submitted a patch.

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