On Wed, 2018-09-12 at 16:23 +0200, Kamil Paral wrote: > On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 3:45 PM Matthias Clasen <mclasen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > If it works, why should we make it configurable ? I don't think anybody > > wants their battery drained... > > > > I'm not omniscient, but I can think of at least a few reasons from the top > of my head: > * Hibernation doesn't work well on your hardware, but suspend does. This > can mean that hibernate doesn't work at all, or that it fails randomly in 1 > out of 10 attempts (my personal experience, some firmware is just lovely). > * You prefer fast wake-up time (or e.g. that you don't need to decrypt your > hard drive again) to a longer hibernation resume and you know it won't be > long before you're going to wake up the device (e.g. an office laptop, to > be woken up each morning). FWIW this is exactly my use case. I keep my main laptop plugged in in my office, and close to lid to suspend it each evening. Some time the next day I'm gonna open it again. I'd prefer it wake up quickly, and as it's plugged in, there's no need for it to hibernate. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
