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		grumpyprole on June 28, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook ... What's wrong with hibernating and suspending? It's been two months since I last rebooted my Linux laptop, I typically only do it when upgrading the kernel. I agree it would be nice to keep session state after a reboot, but it's a very minor annoyance. Some window managers such as i3, do at least let one persist window configurations.

dredmorbius on June 28, 2018 [–]

Nothing, other than that it 1) may not work on all hardware and 2) slightly increases battery drain.

Suspend (to disk) can be slow on some hardware -- moreso than rebooting. Though it preserves state.

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