I'm not a "Linux Guy" really but I started re-evaluating it lately, and I think it might not just be for the Tech Weirdos anymore. It can absolutely be a daily driver for a lot of game developers now!
I thought #LinuxMint was previously based on #Ubuntu then switched to #Debian (or planned to at least), but doesn't seem like that's the case since I just read news of upcoming Mint release and that's based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Unless I'm confusing Mint with the other newbie#Linux distro of choice, #PopOS, which often happens.
My Linux laptop used to suspend perfectly. I'd close the lid and it would go to sleep. Open it up, it would spring to life - presenting me with a password screen. But, some time in the last few months, it has stopped doing that.
If I close the lid, it keeps running. This is unhelpful.
If I manually run the suspend command - systemctl suspend - the laptop blanks the screen then immediately turns it back on at the lock screen. It doesn't suspend.
I know that suspend physically works - becasue running any of these other command does properly suspend the machine. But powering it back up goes straight to the desktop - no lock screen!
I went down a bit of a rabbit hole, following lots of suggestions from various people on the Internet. None of these helped me - but they may be useful pointers to you.
I tried disabling everything in . I couldn't get PXSX to be disabled. But even with everything else off, the suspend didn't work.
At some point in the last few months, Pop_OS has stopped sleeping / suspending when I close my laptop's lid.
Even manually telling it systemctl suspenddoesn't work; it just takes me back to the lock screen.
Running sudo /lib/systemd/systemd-sleep suspenddoes suspend. As does echo "mem" > /sys/power/state. But when I push the power button I get straight in, no lock screen.
Help! How do I get my laptop to sleep when the lid is closed, and awaken to a lock screen?
It's really nice to see the progress being made on @system76's COSMIC DE. I've been checking it out on my ThinkPad T14 with an AMD Ryzen APU running Pop!_OS.
Trying out #PopOS#Linux today. I really appreciate the auto tiler window management, and the system seems to run pretty well out of the box on my RTX 3060M card (until I tried to use Pop Wayland and watched steam freak out all over my monitors), but it's painful to have to manually add and modify GRUB to dual boot from a separate drive and also I'm still really not a fan of how claustrophobic GNOME feels.
I would rather just get the auto-tiler, dGPU, and super key menu configurations in KDE.
I’ve been using #cosmic on #popos and off for two years. Verdict is in, I hate it. I’ve off to install another distro or try to make my gnome more vanilla.
Ran Linux Mint for a week, which is always my choice no. 1. However, it was painfully slow, some apps took 20 seconds to start. Video streaming was lagging and I could literally see the cursor trying to catch up with my typing. Not sure what was wrong, couldn't continue. And that with a Thinkpad X1, 4 cores and 16 GB of RAM.
Now jumped to PopOS and boy, does it make a difference. Did anyone have a similar experience?
I don't understand how #MicrosoftWindows start menu is so buggy. Click start, type in expecting it to search, nothing happens. Click away, click start, type, nothing happens. Click away, Click start, type away and it works. It is so regular across so many computers I can't imagine it's just me having that infuriating experience.
@proactiveservices not sure if I use that. Project codewords and the plethora of environments makes me lose track of what is used.
I'm on #PopOS and whatever it uses for the equivalent of the start menu search seems reliable though maybe once a week it doesn't take focus and I have to click into the search box.
> Last week, I turned on my PC, installed a Windows update, and rebooted to find Microsoft Edge automatically open with the Chrome tabs I was working on before the update. I don’t use Microsoft Edge regularly, and I have Google Chrome set as my default browser. […] it took me a moment to realize that Microsoft Edge had simply taken over where I’d left off in Chrome.
@czottmann one of my colleagues just told me this morning that the same thing happened to him with his Win machine. He also said that is the last straw and he is ditching it for #linux :) And he is strongly considering my favorite distro #PopOS