Linux is cool, I can do a lot of things with it. If i set a config file in Linux, I am damn sure that it is ran every single time. The code does what you tell it to do.
There is 1 thing that always seems to be “black magic”: 1) lid close and suspend 2) lid close and suspend and lock.
If we ignore locking for a moment and focus on suspend. I cant seem to figure out why sometimes lid close would suspend immediately, when other time it takes 5 seconds after lid closes. On some days, lid closes would not even suspend !!
Did anyone manage to get suspend work 100 %? I cant believe we have tons of great linux tools and years into kernel dev, and still suspend is a hit or miss.
i dont really close my lid and walk away, i usually just lock the screen and turn off the display if required without suspending.
altho i have noticed users complain that suspend fails after a specific service/application is started so u might wanna check on that
i got in the habit of doing this also because suspend didn’t work 100% of the time back then, but stopped when i switched to linux first laptops.
i switched back to a windows-first laptop recently and forgot about setting it so that it doesn’t auto suspend when i close the lid and it works just fine with fedora on it; linux has made leaps and bounds since the last time i contributed to it.
although, to be fair, i was on linux-first laptops for a decade so there was plenty of time to catch up. lol