coldmeat mentioned black screening a few days back, so I'll share my own anecdote.
I've daily driven Ubuntu Linux since spring 2017, upgrading it a few times along the way (except for the beginning, always sticking to LTS releases). Unity was deprecated in 2018, so I was forcibly switched to GNOME a few years ago. I'm still running 22.04 with the stock kernel.
Anyway, one of the few annoyances since the last major upgrade is that when the screen blanks, it doesn't unblank on any input. The system is still running, but the screen is just black. Initially, my only recourse was to fully sleep the system, then wake it up. (I rarely ever reboot, because why?)
So seems like something weird with GDM when blanking the screen. Maybe upgrading to 24.04 will fix it, but I've been dragging my feet since last year. Eventually, I did discover a "solution." If I quickly mash the ESC key in repetition, the GDM login screen actually appears as it normally should.
Ubuntu has had some quality control issues over the past few years, and this is one of the little quirks I've learned to tolerate. Debian 13 was released just yesterday (as was Proxmox VE 9 last week), so maybe it's time...
If in 2010, someone told you that macOS + Linux would be approx. 20% of PC usage fifteen years later, you'd LOL.
Linux is rarely preinstalled by OEMs, so it requires some effort to adopt. But the trend line has been intriguing since Steam Deck.
I've daily driven Ubuntu Linux since spring 2017, upgrading it a few times along the way (except for the beginning, always sticking to LTS releases). Unity was deprecated in 2018, so I was forcibly switched to GNOME a few years ago. I'm still running 22.04 with the stock kernel.
Anyway, one of the few annoyances since the last major upgrade is that when the screen blanks, it doesn't unblank on any input. The system is still running, but the screen is just black. Initially, my only recourse was to fully sleep the system, then wake it up. (I rarely ever reboot, because why?)
So seems like something weird with GDM when blanking the screen. Maybe upgrading to 24.04 will fix it, but I've been dragging my feet since last year. Eventually, I did discover a "solution." If I quickly mash the ESC key in repetition, the GDM login screen actually appears as it normally should.
Ubuntu has had some quality control issues over the past few years, and this is one of the little quirks I've learned to tolerate. Debian 13 was released just yesterday (as was Proxmox VE 9 last week), so maybe it's time...
Not to mention macOS is somewhere around 15% of PC usage share globally. Sure Apple is a walled garden, but that's fairly impressive considering they are a single vendor. Consider that in poorer countries, there is very little macOS usage so the share in the top markets of U.S. and UK is substantially higher than 15%.
If in 2010, someone told you that macOS + Linux would be approx. 20% of PC usage fifteen years later, you'd LOL.
Linux is rarely preinstalled by OEMs, so it requires some effort to adopt. But the trend line has been intriguing since Steam Deck.
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