USB drives and suspend were working well for me, for a few years before systemd took over the distro I used (arch linux). Of course, I set it up to work perfect

USB drives and suspend were working well for me, for a few years before systemd took over the distro I used (arch linux). Of course, I set it up to work perfectly for me. It wasn't too hard. It's the reason I started preferring linux in the first place - I run into bugs on windows and mac os x, and I can't make a system fully the way I like it, except with something like linux. But I digress. Things also work fine now, but during the transitions from "udev and group permissions" to HAL to udisks / consolekit to systemd / logind, stuff broke. It seems like the same group of well-meaning people worked on HAL then dropped it, worked on consolekit then dropped it, and ended up in the systemd ecosystem. The various desktop / filemanager projects that started supporting one of these previous systems, to be more compatible with the others and theoretically make things easier for users, sort of got pulled from one to the next, whether it was better or not. Because the previous was unsupported and somehow getting more flaky. Anyway... it's not the end of the world, there are still other distros and more minimal projects, and it's all still open source. There are even people trying to maintain independent udev and consolekit (the end of the usb-drive-access line, if you don't get on systemd). But it is annoying that there are these people and projects, that have a lot of influence on other prominent, "classic" projects, that are trying to make a linux system like windows or os x, and adding huge amounts of coupling and complexity. All because they want all sorts of things to "just work" and attract the "common user". Both of these goals are futile, and the costs paid are for naught.