On 8/19/19 4:14 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 8/19/19 3:42 AM, Artur Iwicki wrote:
Do you have OLED monitor? Generic LCD/LED monitors does not suffer
from this issue. I never shut down my monitor for years and it works
fine.
The monitor damage is not the issue here; it's just a possible side
effect of the issue. As Chris mentioned earlier - consider a
battery-powered system, which will just wait for the password until
the battery discharges completely. This behaviour simply isn't
sensible, in my opinion, and - forgive the phrase - smells of "works
for us, so why bother?" thinking.
That doesn't make any sense. When are you going to have a laptop that
isn't plugged in do a reboot with no one watching it? It doesn't
matter whether or not the screen is blanked, the laptop is going to
run out of battery anyway.
Imagine someone's working on a wireless-connected laptop powered off the
battery, and deciding to run updates before taking a break. They expect
the laptop to suspend after a period of inactivity---but since the
updates require a reboot, the user finds a discharged laptop upon returning.
Even a simpler case would be someone turning on their laptop and walking
away on an unexpectedly long errand. Raise your hand if your errands are
always short.
It's true that these cases are relatively rare and, unlike unexpected
out-of-battery shutdown during normal operation, wouldn't lead to data
loss due to unclean filesystem, so it's not a tragedy if there are
insurmountable technical reasons preventing inactivity suspend while
booting, but still, the right thing to do is to suspend on inactivity
in all cases.
My recent experience with Fedora on laptops is very good---I essentially
don't need to worry about manually shutting down the system when I am
not using it. The batteries last for days if not weeks in sleep states.
All corner cases that don't suspend on inactivity are a violation the
principle of least surprise.
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