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You do put your PC to sleep without closing your programs !?
by d-lisp 9mo ago
You do put your PC to sleep without closing your programs !?
- super256 9mo agoYes! That's exactly what the sleep mode is for.
- d-lisp 9mo agoI am not an anxious person. But that thing, "waking up sleeping computer with programs freezed in it", makes me anxious. I just can't...
- super256 9mo agoYou better not buy mobile devices a la steam deck or laptops then.
- d-lisp 9mo agoYou're right, I sudo shutdown now Every time before closing the lid of my laptop...
- super256 9mo agoIs there a rationale behind it, or do you just feel that way? I have never run into issues with this, and real coding bugs like the one in GOG Galaxy, where play time =time_process_end - time_process_start instead of continously sending heartbeats like steam, are probably a bigger issue.
- d-lisp 9mo agoI think I fear system instability and its consequent (probable) problems. Sleep does a lot of things, a lot I don't necessarily understand, all the OS layers are stressed at once, and with them a whole lot of other things, bith software and hardware related. Are all the drivers of your system trustworthy, are all the running applications trustworthy ? Are we sure no data loss will occur ? Will you lose audio, wifi, display or excessive battery because of a race condition or an error of some sort in an element of the whole involved stack ? Most of the time everything is fine, or is it ? Maybe your computer will hit kernel panic after two hours or so, and you will have hard time figuring the real cause and origin. tldr; I think it scares me because it increase the probability for the system to surprise crash at a very crucial time (while compiling something, in between two saves of a text buffer, during a write to disk...)