This is my most needed feature in linux. I want zero ‘connect/disconnect’ sounds and if the laptop is asleep I don’t want it to wake up in the middle of the night for no reason.

I have an infinite supply of Windows laptops from work but I hate them with a burning passion and I can’t afford to replace my Macbook.

If someone can tell me what linux distro is the most silent and least annoying I will erase my entire Windows partition this weekend.

  • superkret@feddit.orgEnglish
    9·
    8 hours ago

    I know I’m showing my age with this comment, but when I don’t use my computer, I turn it off.

    • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nlEnglish
      7·
      7 hours ago

      Difference with laptops and desktops.

      Work laptops I almost never turn off. Hibernation is better because being able to save 10 minutes getting everything set back up is valuable.

      Desktop gets turned off when I plan to not use it for a while.

      Server is always on except for updates.

    • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      7 hours ago

      Under Windows, I never wanted to shut it down because it took forever to both shut down and boot back up, so I used the sleep function. But I’m definitely old enough to have grown up with the habit of turning off the computer when I’m done.

      That same laptop running Linux gets shut down when I’m done using it for the night because it’s just so much faster, and it applies the automatic updates my distro uses - painlessly. Why are Windows updates so terrible?

      • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
        1·
        7 hours ago

        The applying updates on shutdown is another interesting thing… Where did that come from btw? In the old days, my Linux machine used to apply updates in the background. Or ask me. And now a few distros have switched to doing it on shutdown (or worse: restart and start some systemd task and shut down again), which is mildly annoying if you want to shut down your laptop, throw it into the backpack and catch the next train.

        • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          5 hours ago

          Which distros are auto-updating at shutdown? I want to avoid that windows-ass bullshit like the plague. Never seen that on Linux so far.

          • hendrik@palaver.p3x.de
            2·
            4 hours ago

            Idk, I’m not distro-hopping that much these days. The Laptop that annoyed me had Debian Testing. I think with the unattended-upgrades (badly) configured. Fortunately you can change that in less than a minute…