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Be ware that cold booting isn't actually cold booting anymore, but more like the suspend feature of old. You need to restart the computer (or pull the plug) to
by marginalia_nu 4y ago
Be ware that cold booting isn't actually cold booting anymore, but more like the suspend feature of old. You need to restart the computer (or pull the plug) to shut it down for real.
It's part of why laptops can't hold a charge anymore.
- cesarb 4y ago> Be ware that cold booting isn't actually cold booting anymore, but more like the suspend feature of old. You need to restart the computer (or pull the plug) to shut it down for real. Not on Linux, which is what the parent poster is using. This "shut down means hibernate, you have to press restart to actually shut down" behavior is a Windows-only novelty.
- JohnFen 4y agoAlthough you can configure Linux to do this, if you're feeling masochistic.
- iudqnolq 4y agoI configured my laptop to suspend on lid close. One day it didn't and overheated itself so badly it permanently damaged the screen.
- JohnFen 4y agoWhat?? For years, I've been using my laptops connected to external monitors and I/O devices with the lid closed. I've never had any of them get anywhere near hot enough to damage the screen. I wouldn't be so quick to blame that on Linux as much as it seems there was a hardware fault in the laptop.
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoI have a desktop with no swap configured. It can only cold boot when off. There is no way to hibernate, suspend, or whatever. Shutdown and long pressing the power button kills everything.
- marginalia_nu 4y agoThat's kinda scary. Linux assumes you have swap. If you do not, you may OOM with significant free memory because it needs it when swapping pages. Granted, not super common in a desktop setting, but still. Like a 64 Mb swap file is all you need to avoid this.