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What Would You Like To See Improved in GNU/Linux? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 10 months ago by lofenyy@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.)

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[โ€“] raldone01@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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) ๐Ÿ˜ข

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[โ€“] raldone01@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

I've read about LVM a few times, but it feels like I'd need a deep dive in file systems to get it.

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[โ€“] bruhduh@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hibernate to swapfile is possible you don't need to repartition

[โ€“] onlinepersona@programming.dev 0 points 10 months ago

Hadn't thought about that! I'll have a look. IIRC it's not recommended on BTRFS, but maybe that changed.

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