NothanyTPM 2024-07-10 17:57:01

Suspend (AKA: the Linux version of sleep mode) still needs power while suspended, meanwhile hibernate doesn't.
[Suspend/sleep save to RAM while hibernate saves to your hard-drive to be more technical]

The main difference is that suspend wakes-up faster than hibernate, but hibernate is safer if you're in a situation where you have a power-outage, or are low on battery.

It's good to have both, or even set it up where your PC can go from suspend to hibernate after a while.

Hope that answers your question!

NothanyTPM 2024-07-10 20:08:15

First time Debian user! Been an Arch main for a good couple years, but things started getting a little too risky with it once I started drawing more frequently. I didn't want the burden of fixing my PC at random when I was in the mood to draw. If you know what I mean.

Honestly, Arch is good for short-term stuff, or if you don't mind the risk of packages potentially breaking after an update. Arch is pretty fun for getting into these "barebones" distros as I like to call them. Something about learning the basic inner workings of Linux, and seeing how long you can keep Arch running without Pacman breaking is fun. It also installs way less packages compared to any other distro for some reason. It's the only distro I've tried that installs Neofetch as 1 package instead of 60.

Haven't tried Gentoo, but also Gentoo is one of those distros that might be fun to install like once and never again. I've tried compiling packages a few times through FreeBSD and a little in NixOS. It's just so boring and tedious needing to wait a couple hours to build just one thing, and then realizing you didn't leave enough space in the root partition for it to build properly (25GB is never enough, it has to be 50 or 100GB), so then it just become a mess where you need to manage a bunch of stuff or re-partition the entire drive, and so on...it's a mess, and I don't know how Gentoo users live with that.

Good luck with that Chromebook project though. Had one a while ago, and couldn't find a single use for it (it only has 20GB of storage!). It was so bad no one in my family wanted to use it, not even as a basic temporary web-browsing PC, or Spotify player.

NothanyTPM 2024-07-31 17:45:40

Thank you! My favourite is the sunset with the playground, and the gravel trail in the woods, but there were so many good photos I took that even picking my favourites is hard.

Also yeah, I've been making these little 2-3 panel comics every month since February. It's a neat little distraction from my main projects, and it helps me practice drawing comics. Gonna compile them all by the end of the year so people can binge them.

Lastly, I'm in this fascinating position where I'm both an artist, and a tech nerd, so it gets a little tough to talk about my tech interests in such an art focused community. The good thing is that I know how to work around every art program's limitations, and be as efficient as possible. The bad part is no one knows what the heck I'm talking about. C'est la vie!