Re: Not Much LINUX Stuff of Late

On Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:21:43 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 30/07/2026 22:51, John Ames wrote:
>> On Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:34:13 -0400 Chris Ahlstrom
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>>> Does anybody really care about boot times anymore? *nix uptimes can
>>>> generally be measured in months or years, and off an SSD even my
>>>> pokey little Eee 904 (running Devuan with sysvinit) goes from zero to
>>>> display manager in less than a minute.
>>>
>>> I care about boot times for my main laptop, as I don't use the suspend
>>> or hibernate functionality.
>> 
>> Far be it from me to tell you how to use your machine...but I'm curious
>> why you wouldn't?
>> 
>> 
> I sometimes shut mine down completely.
> 
> Shutting the lid mostly works. Until it doesn't

Leap 16 on the Lenovo and Mint on the Acer are well behaved so far. 
EndeavourOS on the Lenovo was a crap shoot.