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Comment by zimpenfish | Hacker News Reader

Close the lid, it goes to sleep. Open the lid, it wakes up. Windows and Linux have yet to master this simple task.

Sorry to disagree, but it was already available in Windows ages ago. Furthermore, not all notebook cases support this functionality.

Update: Dear downvoter, please have a look at this evidence: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/144454/lid.png

The late 90's want their Linux back.

Seriously, I never had this kind of problem with Linux. I am having them now, but I have nobody to blame but myself for running a beta OS (Ubuntu 11.10)

I almost consider 11.04 to be beta. Alt-tab to switch between windows is driving me nuts (I'm using the classic interface), the new window gets some kind of focus (titlebar changes) but the keyboard focus doesn't reliably follow. And Ubuntu has jumped on the minimalist, hide previously easily found configuration settings bandwagon.

Harumph!

(But I still like Ubuntu, overall.)

I have been using 11.04 on my home machine and it feels very solid if rough around the edges. Only problem I had was with FontForge crashing under Unity and working fine with Gnome classic.

I bit the bullet and spent some time yesterday installing XFCE and fiddling with it. And now it feels solid to me again too (it was never really shaky, just irritating in my use case). Focus reliably follows whatever window I alt-tab to, and I'm happy again.

I actually don't care what DE or window manager I use, my computer is just a place to hold a browser, a terminal window, and some development tools. All I require is that it stay out of my way and not make me notice it.

This not only works with Windows, but also with most Linux distros.

I think Windows Sleep/Hibernate works good provided the h/w support exists (I've seen a few windows boxes without the hibernate option, wonder why that is though)

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