Is there any Linux distro out there that supports sleep/hibernate flawlessly ?
I've got a very plain Asus notebook (no Nvidia card, just Intel Graphics!) running Debian 8 and the situation is unacceptable atm. I didn't have to reboot for weeks in the past. At the moment I am lucky if my laptop doesn't freeze thanks to sleep/hibernate within 2 days.
My recommendation for any kind of serious desktop use is always Gentoo. Problems like the one you mention are much easier to solve when you can pick which versions of all packages to install and which kernel flags to enable.
I can't tell whether you are being sarcastic. Seriously.
I hate Gentoo with a passion. Being able to pick versions and set flags means that, between any two Gentoo installations, the difference is likely bigger than any two Ubuntu 16.04 installation.
I think it just creates more complexity for support scenarios.
I'd definitely not recommend it for "serious desktop use" unless you are a hardcore graybeard.
I am not being sarcastic and I use it and I have used it for years. I consider myself a "hardcore greybeard", or a neckbeard, which is what you actually meant ;P
I don't agree with the support thing though. Most Gentoo users are knowledgeable; developers are always on irc/forums lending support; certain commands such as `emerge --info' make it easy to figure out what the state of the machine is regarding flags/masks.
I really meant "graybeard". I think "neckbeard" has a negative connotation, whereas "graybeard" is just supposed to mean somebody of older age who is knowledgeable.
Especially the ones about openSUSE's supposed inadequacies. openSUSE is my distro of choice for computer users switching away from Windows XP, and I've had very few problems with it even on Tumbleweed, let alone any Leap version. YaST alone is a killer feature; zero other distros (AFAIK; I'd happy to be corrected here) have anything like it.
The DE might have something to do with it, though; I typically set people up with Xfce, whereas KDE - as fantastic as it may be - can be a little overwhelming for new users.
The complaints about Fedora are spot-on, though, even if lacking specificity in this article. Every time I've used Fedora, it's been a nightmare of kernel panicking/oopsing and weird user-facing software bugs that are just plain absent even on other "bleeding-edge" distros on the same hardware.
For me it's Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. It started not really well but after 2nd and 3rd update is working flawlessly. I'm wondering and looking forward for the next upcoming fedora release also. However, for me (till march 17) the best distro gonna be Ubuntu 16.04.
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As well as the versions for popular packages in the release.
Looks like NixOS 17.03 dropped yesterday (2017/03/31): https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=09772
Couple of days before that, Oracle Linux 6.9 (https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=09770) and DragonFly BSD 4.8.0 (https://distrowatch.com/9769).
For those who still use news readers, the feed is at https://distrowatch.com/news/dw.xml.
I've got a very plain Asus notebook (no Nvidia card, just Intel Graphics!) running Debian 8 and the situation is unacceptable atm. I didn't have to reboot for weeks in the past. At the moment I am lucky if my laptop doesn't freeze thanks to sleep/hibernate within 2 days.
I hate Gentoo with a passion. Being able to pick versions and set flags means that, between any two Gentoo installations, the difference is likely bigger than any two Ubuntu 16.04 installation.
I think it just creates more complexity for support scenarios.
I'd definitely not recommend it for "serious desktop use" unless you are a hardcore graybeard.
I don't agree with the support thing though. Most Gentoo users are knowledgeable; developers are always on irc/forums lending support; certain commands such as `emerge --info' make it easy to figure out what the state of the machine is regarding flags/masks.
Hug of death (probably): https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wQGgEG...
Also, nothing to back up the assertions.
The DE might have something to do with it, though; I typically set people up with Xfce, whereas KDE - as fantastic as it may be - can be a little overwhelming for new users.
The complaints about Fedora are spot-on, though, even if lacking specificity in this article. Every time I've used Fedora, it's been a nightmare of kernel panicking/oopsing and weird user-facing software bugs that are just plain absent even on other "bleeding-edge" distros on the same hardware.
[1] https://manjaro.org/2017/04/01/phasing-out-x86-architecture-...