No its an antimeme. The joke is that everybody gotta turn it on.

Mine works

sleep and hibernate work fine on linux. I remember the olden days like 15 years ago where nothing of it worked. contrary to the stupid macos that was forced onto me which sleep means nothing and just keeps draining my bluetooth headphones battery anyway instead of turning off when I tell it to.

It was mostly because of Nvidia drivers. So many Linux issues is just Nvidia related.

You'd still need to turn it on if it's in hibernate. Well, you might not need to push the power button, might have a laptop that can, while off, key off the lid switch. But the laptop's still off when it's hibernated.

Despite OP insisting otherwise, I'm gonna assume you are correct. I use a lot of flavors of linux for a lot of things, but I don't have it on a laptop (other than as an alt boot in case of a crash), so it seems logical to me that's why this joke went over my head.

Ksplice would like to have a word

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Lucky you! Mine just crashes when I try to enter Sleep mode leaving both screens on and frozen, and nothing at all working.

I remember when windows used to brag about incredibly fast boot times.

Now, my 5 yo gaming PC takes about 30 seconds to wake up to the password screen. While my Linux laptop takes 15 seconds to go from cold start to desktop.

Meanwhile, my work Windows laptop is significantly slower to wake up now as I'm forced to hibernate it thanks to them removing S3 sleep in favor of the modern standby shit.

100% of the time I drink water my mouth gets wet. I don't get it

Or needing a f*ckinr reboot everytime an update hits the shitty fan (gpo enforced)

For linux, its when you update the kernel.

May I introduce kexec

Walk into an average mega corp office that is full of windows desktops, after everyone has left. Every pc is still on.

Gotta keep that uptime, leave it on

Yes. Same here. Leaving it on for another month would have been unreasonable.

Mixed theories on that, and most are older.

On earlier computers, I had several ICs walk themselves out of sockets due to repeated thermal expansion cycles. Keeping the computer turned on eliminates most of that.

Mechanical wear was another problem. Booting a computer was extremely taxing on old HDDs and floppy drives.

Edit: Mechanical stuff also takes much more power to spin up and get running. The energy savings might be measurable if you just kept a computer running and didn't power cycle it everyday.

Most power supplies are really well designed now but they had a tendency to spike power briefly in when turned on. This was especially bad for older capacitors but also not healthy for the ICs. This still happens to a degree, but it's not an issue.

Now that boot times are reasonably fast and most everything is solid state and power managed really well, turning a computer off is fine.

However, I just assume most electronics now just go into some type of deep sleep mode unless fully disconnected from any power source. That likely isn't true in many cases, but I consider it healthy level of paranoia.

I (another Linux user) also don't get this.

And then jump out of them

At least that's what i get an urge to do every time i have to use windows

Desktop: never. Laptop: always. Suspend: Will my laptop wake up? Who knows!

Yes, every day at least

Desktop: Every single time I'm don't with it. For the moment. At most I might leave it on if I have to do something for an hour or two and then come back to it. At the end of the night it is always off. Laptop: sleep, always. Occasional restarts for Linux kernels updates.

I guess... I haven't really had issues with it though I turn mine off when I'm done anyway cause I don't need it using low power when it could be using zero.

s2idle or nvidia?