Hey guys, I’m just an ordinary dev looking for something to work on. While messing around with my hobby projects, I couldn’t help but notice that under the surface, there are a lot of places that the libre desktop can be improved. I’d like to take on your suggestions on what I should seriously consider working on and helping out with.

Thanks for any comments and suggestions.

(For those wondering, I’m still working on my other stuff.)

  • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Sleep battery usage.

    Seriously, I don’t know what is up with Linux but it wastes so much battery during sleep. My laptop lasts 8 hours on normal, daily use, but if I put it to sleep: 24h max.

    Isn’t sleep supposed to just keep the RAM powered on because that component requires power to keep state? How can “keeping the lights on” waste so much energy?

    • raldone01@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I have given up on sleep long ago. Why don’t you just hibernate? With ssds the boot is really quick.

      • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
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        11 months ago

        I thought sleep would be good, but I think you’re right. At this point I might just give up on sleep.

        Unfortunately, that means repartitioning my drive as I don’t have swap at all (64GB RAM) 😢

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