Shall we hide the GUI for Hibernate in Natty?

[Kevin Hunter]

At 2:40pm -0500 Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:04:22AM -0800, Rick Spencer wrote:
>> Natty is currently NOT showing the Hibernate option in the list of
>> shutdown choices. This is currently an experiment, but I thought
>> it might be worth discussing the pros and cons on these lists as
>> well.

> I used to use hibernate a lot, even though it was slow like mentioned
> in the original email, it was a nice way to save state. Handy when
> on airplanes.

I am "just" an end-user who supports various other people.  What works 
for each computer varies, but /seems/ to be related to the drivers of 
their respective video cards.  I've internally known suspension and 
hibernation to be buggy, but they're usually consistently buggy. 
Meaning, that when I first set someone up with an Ubuntu install, I see 
which version, if either, works.  I then plainly tell them to use one or 
the other.

For what it's worth, the folks in my office seem to use suspend. 
Personally, since my laptop is usually off only during trips to and from 
the office, suspend is much nicer because it's gobs quicker.

As a side note, if hibernate could be a bit smarter about writing the 
ram to disk, I have a hunch it could be made faster as well.  However, I 
imagine that's outside of the purview of this list ...

Cheers,

Kevin