I've been irritated by so many obvious shortcomings of Ubuntu this version (16.04). So many of the most obvious fixes are easily attributed to configuration files. I don't know if those who purchase the operating system directly from Canonical versus a download are having to deal with the same problems or are getting a superior/better operating system. Some of my main qualms that I am unable to deal with are the theming. Even using alternative themes most of them won't even look right as supposed. The HIBERNATION itself seems to work fine on other closely related distros (Elementary OS I tested). but Ubuntu has problems with it. AFAIK the GRUB_CMDLINE breaks this if anything, and alternatives such as TuxOnIce don't work either. My guess is that its Plymouth and there doesn't seem to be any clear pointers to a solution. After desktop session saving was deprecated (or removed because of transition from Gnome?), this seems like a serious and necessary *implementation* of desktop application saving. I've seen a lot of these blogs that suggest installing extra programs and such after the installation. Here's mine: Top real things to do after installing Ubuntu 16.04 LTS: <ol> <li>Fix splash at boot up <ol type="I"> <li>while root create file /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/splash and add the line: FRAMEBUFFER=y <ol> <li>then run sudo update-initramfs -u [-k all] </li><li> “-k all” refers to checking all graphics cards </li></ol> </li></ol> </li><li>Alternative recourse if the previous splash fix doesn’t cover everything <ol type="I"> <li>Comment out GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT and GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET lines (both deprecated) </li><li>uncomment GRUB_TIMEOUT (preferably set to 0) and add ‘GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden’ </li><li>add boot option ‘fastboot’ to /etc/default/grub (to hide file system clean message at boot) </li><li> add ‘GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep’ to same file </li><li>run sudo update-grub </li></ol> </li><li> Disable upstart entry in grub menu <ol type="I"> <li>as root edit /etc/grub.d/10_linux and find line SUPPORTED_INITS and remove the option ‘upstart:/sbin/upstart’ </li><li>run sudo update-grub </li></ol> </li><li>Remove Guest account from login <ol type="I"> <li>create new file /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf and add following lines: </li></ol> </li></ol> <dl> <dl> <dd> <table width="488" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0"> <colgroup><col width="474"> </colgroup><tbody><tr> <td width="474" valign="top" style="border: 2.00pt solid #808080; padding: 0.04in"> [SeatDefaults] greeter-session=unity-greeter user-session=ubuntu allow-guest=false </td> </tr> </tbody></table> </dd></dl> </dl> <ol start="5"> <li>Fix event sounds <ol type="I"> <li>for startup open startup applications and add “canberra-gtk-play -i desktop-login &” </li><li>as root in /etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf add the line: “session-cleanup-script=/usr/share/gnome/shutdown/libcanberra-logout-sound.sh” </li></ol> </li><li><strike>Enable hibernate</strike> <ol type="I"> <li>First make sure your swap partition is large enough </li><li>the kernel that comes with Ubuntu is behind and has a bug that causes hibernate to crash when in practical situations <ol> <li>go to <a href="http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.4.8-wily">http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.4.8-wily</a> </li><li>download and install kernel headers and image </li><li>remove any older kernel packages </li></ol> </li><li>run sudo blkid and determine swap UUID </li><li>ensure UUID is the same in /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume </li><li>add the same line to /etc/default/grub at the end of GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT or to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX </li><li> run sudo update-grub and sudo update-initramfs -u </li></ol> </li></ol> <ol> <ol type="I" start="7"> <li>while root create /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/com.ubuntu.enable-hibernate.pkla and add following lines: </li></ol> </ol> <table width="697" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0"> <colgroup><col width="683"> </colgroup><tbody><tr> <td width="683" valign="top" style="border: 2.00pt solid #808080; padding: 0.04in"> [Re-enable hibernate by default in upower] Identity=unix-user:* Action=org.freedesktop.upower.hibernate ResultActive=yes [Re-enable hibernate by default in logind] Identity=unix-user:* Action=org.freedesktop.login1.hibernate;org.freedesktop.login1.hibernate-multiple-sessions ResultActive=yes </td> </tr> </tbody></table> <ol> <ol type="I"> <li>As root edit /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/inet and change XF86Hibernate key to <I213> and comment out XF86Suspend line <ol> <li>run sudo dpkg-reconfigure xkb-data </li></ol> </li><li>*optional: edit /etc/systemd/logind.conf <ol> <li>find line “#HandleLidSwitch=suspend” and uncomment </li><li>change suspend to hibernate </li></ol> </li></ol> <li> Fix scaling to remove distortions <ol type="I"> <li> use dconf or gsettings <ol> <li>change /com/canonical/unity/interface/text-scale-factor to 0.95 </li><li>change /org/gnome/desktop/interface/text-scaling-factor to 0.95 </li><li>change /org/gnome/desktop/interface/document-font-name to Sans 12 </li><li>change /org/gnome/desktop/interface/font-name to Ubuntu 12 </li></ol> </li></ol> </li><li>*optional: install Unity Tweak <ol type="I"> <li>sudo apt install unity-tweak-tool </li></ol> </li></ol>