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
    15·
    6 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
      62·
      6 months ago

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

      Edit: I got frustrated with ACPI and uefi issues on my laptops. I wish we had open source uefis for most laptops.

      • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        6 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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        • raldone01@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          Usually swap can be quite a bit smaller than RAM it might still work.

          Edit: You might want to check out lvm if you do repartition. Also many filesystems support swap files on them.