> The reason is that GNOME 3 is geared towards power saving and wear and > tear. Shutting down your laptop is not as good as suspend.
Do you have any sources to back up the claim that it's less power consuming to suspend a computer then to shut it down or hibernate it? > So when people as you, it's because suspend is a better mode than shutting > down and booting up. Since that increases wear and tear on your laptop > especially drives. This I can imagine being real, but again is there anything more behind this than speculation? > Suspend lets you instantly start working again. If suspend is not working > then we need to push for the Linux eco-system to make it work. Not making > compromises forces people to actually fix the various issues and that makes > Linux better. > > On a Mac, I never ever think of shutting down, I just close the lid and then > open up again. Why? Because suspend is nearly instantaneous. > > One could argue that it doesn't make sense for a desktop, but honestly for > myself I never shutdown my machine, it's better to go into a power saving > mode. Except those times we need to load a new kernel with new security patches on. -- www.twitter.com/Rovanion _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
