On Fri, Apr 22, 2016, 4:25 PM Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro@gnome.org> wrote:
On Fri, 2016-04-22 at 13:14 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> This bug is proposed as a Fedora 24 blocker, anaconda component:
>
> Laptop does not resume from hibernate, boots instead
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1206936

My answer is that we do not support hibernation in Fedora Workstation,
so I really do not care. We do not even expose it except as the action
to perform on critical battery. It's partly because we have enough
confusing power off options, but partly because hibernation is
unreliable, hardware-dependent, and frequently broken.

The other release-blocking desktops are KDE and Xfce (on ARM); I guess
they might care about hibernation. But they don't use this list, so I
think this isn't a good place for this discussion.


First, suspending on Linux isn't reliable and hardware dependent. I'm only replying to this thread because I've had a long-standing issue with my current laptop (here's the bug reported by Florian: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1329047).
Second, are three power off options too many? It's not as though average users aren't well aware of all these options.

In general, I'd love to see data supporting people's preference for either: 1) not being able to choose and having an unpredictable resume experience, or 2) exposing the three options so they can determine what trade-off they are willing to make given their usage.