Shall we hide the GUI for Hibernate in Natty?

[Chow Loong Jin]

On Friday 18,February,2011 06:02 PM, Carlos Ribeiro wrote:
> I'm just a lurker here, I'm just a user and I don't tend to say a lot. But
> remember that:
> 
> 1) Not everyone uses laptops. Desktop PCs do not have a battery and losing power
> during a suspend is a no-no.

Sounds just about as disastrous as laptops running out of battery during a
suspend, actually. Which is not as serious as running out of battery while
attempting to hibernate, which seems to be occurring much more often than the
case of running out of battery while suspended. On the other hand, like Marco
mentioned, TuxOnIce is likely to be able to allow more laptops to safely
hibernate on low battery as it finishes a lot faster.


> 2) Not everyone has a long running battery. Suspend does eat a little bit of
> your battery charge, and for people with little charge available it's a recipe
> for disaster.

Actually no, my laptop battery's full charge state can last for an hour, but
even after showing 0%, it can stay in suspend-to-RAM mode for more than half a
day. I haven't tried letting it run longer though.

> 3) Suspend is not reliable for long periods of time, because there's too much
> that can go wrong. If I travel, put my notebook in my bag, or just leave it for
> a few days (it happens sometimes) I prefer to leave it in hibernation.

For travel I usually leave it in suspend mode, but then again I haven't done any
travel that lasted more than half a day with my laptop.

-- 
Kind regards,
Loong Jin

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