I use Ubuntu btw. Poweroff could use more write cycles on the SSD because it has to read everything at startup, but suspend has to keep supplying power to the RAM

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    10 days ago

    Yeah, because of the same experience for the last 2 decades, I always shut my stuff down as well.

    Then I gave an old laptop with Linux to my neoprene. And without further discussion or thinking, he just pressed the power button, when he wanted it to be off - which triggered some kind of sleep mode
    I was so fucking nervous during that, as I had never tested for that, and for the young generation growing up with smartphones that was the obvious move.
    But surprisingly it works like a charm and goes into some kind of standby.
    At least I didn’t got any complains…

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      9 days ago

      Isn’t neoprene a synthetic material?

      My husband also uses the power button to power off his PC. I didn’t even know it was a thing until he asked me to do it for him at some point and I was very confused. He’s on Windows. I didn’t know this worked on Linux as well (though I know it’s a thing on laptops). Is there a way to configure what it does (on PC) like it does on laptops?