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SteamOS Has Dropped Support For Suspend
jones_supa writes: As pointed out by a Redditor, it seems that suspending the machine is not officially supported by SteamOS anymore. A SteamOS user opened a bug report due to his controllers being unresponsive after a suspend cycle. To this, a Valve engineer bluntly reported that "suspend is no longer supported". He further explained the issue by saying that given the state of hardware and software support throughout the graphics stack on Linux, the team didn't think that they could make the feature work reliably.
I am a supporter and committer; my name is on a couple of files in the Linux source. If you're saying that doesn't make me a True Scotsman, then so be it. Why would Linux be a good choice if suspending is a coin flip? Because I don't suspend servers or a handful of other devices Linux supports. I'll stop supporting Linux when < 95% of what I want to do just works perfectly fine and Java is a first class citizen on Windows or BSD; I'll also need Python, Ruby and Perl to be painless to install and run. I'll switch my file server to BSD, like my router/firewall, when it offers me something over Slackware. Also, there's the issue of a few hundred Linux servers, VMs and appliances we have all over the world in my work life.
I accept the suspend thing on my Fedora/Linux Mint dual boot because it's my secondary desktop that I have Steam installed in Linux Mint for gaming and my backup development environment/testing/VM setup on. I boot between the two of those enough that I don't hibernate often. I'll suspend to RAM if I'm going back to what I'm doing within the day, otherwise I just shutdown.
For me, bottom line, the things Linux gets wrong are mostly annoyances and on the whole the OS makes my life better. YMMV of course, but for my use cases the good vastly outweighs the bad. I'll agree though that some of the bad is pretty darn ugly; I'm in complete agreement that SystemD is crap. I want to kill that part of the stack with fire.
If I mod you up, it doesn't necessarily mean I agree with what you've said, sorry.
its not necessarily the ACPI, its the manufacturers implementation of it and their need to bodge it to make sure it works on windows.
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